The legacy of FORTRAN

Mike I'll be mellow when I'm dead Meyer mwm at ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Thu Jul 25 18:14:15 AEST 1985


My G*D! The that leaving off one little ":-)" can create.

Since history isn't a science, we can't test wether changing FORTRAN to use
A to M for integers would change programmers habits.

BTW, *REAL* mathematicians don't use i to j as indices. REAL mathematicians
don't index over numbers. The index over sets, and use s. :-)

And I always use p (for Pointer) as an index in C :-).

	<mike



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