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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: The legacy of FORTRAN
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 00:33:16 EDT
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> ... 90% of C programmers
> >use i and j as index variables.

> Which just goes to show that the FORTRAN integer type names will always be
> with us.

Hey!  Mathematicians established this convention long before Fortran.
Perhaps 90% of C programmers are literate.