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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 18:05:12 +0000
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On 06/03/2025 17:52, Richard Harnden wrote:
> On 06/03/2025 14:49, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>> On 05/03/2025 18:51, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>> Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:
>>>>> On 05/03/2025 17:09, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>>>>> On 05.03.2025 17:40, bart wrote:
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Seriously, short variable names for common things - i, j, k 
>>>>> for loop
>>>>> counters;
>>>>
>>>> So, one might ask _why_ i, j, k instead of a, b, c?
>>>>
>>>> Answer: Fortran IMPLICIT INTEGER
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nonsense.
>>>
>>> Ask rather why Fortran picked i, j, k for integer-type index 
>>> variables.
>>> Their use for that function in maths /long/ predates Fortran.
>>
>> That doesn't mean that C programmers didn't adopt the
>> use of i,j,k from FORTRAN.
> 
> I'd always assumed it was because 'index' was too much to type, 
> and that j and k just followed on.
> 
> Didn't know about any hysterical raisins.

At school we used a, b, c... for trigonometry and p, q, r for 
point co-ordinates, so I suppose I assumed that i, j, k... for 
matrices was intended to exploit a nice juicy part of the 
alphabet that wasn't being used for anything else...

....and then along came imaginary numbers.

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