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From: cok@islsun.Kodak.COM (David Cok)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: About the variable 'I' (was Re: long names (was Readability of Ada))
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.015710.29566@kodak.kodak.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 01:57:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.034205.27308@netcom.COM> mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers) writes:
>Greetings,
>    Can someone confirm (preferably in a post, so my MBX doesn't flood)
>the truth/falsity of FORTRAN being the starter of 'I' as a generic loop
>variable?

The use of i as an index comes from conventional use in mathematics, not
from programming languages.  FORTRAN convention simply reflected that.

David R. Cok
Eastman Kodak Company
cok@Kodak.COM