The legacy of FORTRAN

Malcolm Slaney malcolm at spar.UUCP
Sun Jul 21 09:17:58 AEST 1985


> Which just goes to show that the FORTRAN integer type names will always be
> with us.
Oh, give me a break!  We can blame a lot of things on Fortran but that
isn't one of them.

I bet if you look at most math books (before or after the age of Fortran)
you'd see a lot of summations indexed with i's, j's and even n's.

What a coincidence ..... :-)

Cheers.

							Malcolm



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