The legacy of FORTRAN

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Sun Jul 21 14:33:16 AEST 1985


> ... 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.

Hey!  Mathematicians established this convention long before Fortran.
Perhaps 90% of C programmers are literate.



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