The legacy of FORTRAN

[Carl Lowenstein]

In article <1021 at ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> mwm at ucbtopaz.UUCP (Mike Meyer) writes:
>>Supposedly this is harder to understand.   In the book "Learning
>>to Program in C" by Thomas Plum he mentions that they looked
>>at a bunch of C code and found out that 90% of C programmers
>>use i and j as index variables.
>
>Which just goes to show that the FORTRAN integer type names will always be
>with us.

Mathematicians and physicists were using i and j as index variables
long before Fortran.  In fact, long before programmable digital computers.

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