On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:20:50 +1300, you wrote: >Quoting Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 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. > >It wasn't me honest, it was the fortune! > >> (OT: trivia question, why is it that 'i' is traditionally used as a lone >> variable in programming?) > >I always just assumed i for index, but we all know about assumptions.
No, it goes back to Fortran days... by default, undeclared variables starting with the letters i,j,k and l (m, n too? ) were integers. When fortran 77 came along, we got block if's, too! > >hads. Steve No, I'm not older than I look (:
