tedd wrote: > Hey, let's watch those "old programmer" remarks, because some of us are
still around. But, you are right about the i, j, k, l, m, n integer thing as a legacy from FORTRAN. Oh, those were the good old days when programming was more like adventures in key punching. Where you would drop off a large stack of IBM cards one day and then pick up a few reams of paper the next day with all your key punching errors.
Not any different today. I write some PHP code and need until the next day to figure out all the runtime errors. ;) I talked today with a developer and the talk came across functions and modular code. He thought it is something "new", but I learned about that 20 years ago programming LOGO on the C64. LOGO is a nice language to pick up the basics, but at least the C64 version was more a NOGO. Although, the turtle was cute, looked like a triangle...
BUT...back to the original question, does the length of a variable name have any impact on performance or such?
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