Because old habits die hard they teach students to use i,j,k when coding @ canterbury.
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 15:30, Steve Holdoway wrote: > 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 (: -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system <h1><b><a href="http://www.debian.org";>debian.org</a></b><h1>
