On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:12, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:29:30PM +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: > > -- > > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. > > No, you can get by as a teenager with an SMS capable cellular telephone. > > I doubt you'd find computer programmers out there that use variables like > that... sheesh. it's either i, j, or k. anyone knows that. > > (OT: trivia question, why is it that 'i' is traditionally used as a lone > variable in programming?)
because it is the first letter in the series 'i' to 'n', those being the initial letters of the integer variables as defined by the FORTRAN standards. Showing my age? Too bad! -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
