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From: ken@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The legacy of FORTRAN
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 16:11:11 EDT
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In article <1021@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> 
>>at a bunch of C code and found out that 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.

I was under the impression that they came from the use of i and j as
subscripts in mathematical formulae.

	Ken
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