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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:55:10 +1000
Subject: Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> Remembering that I, J, K, L, M, and N were integer was trivial if you
> came from a math background. =A0And, of course, Fortran was all about
> math, so that was natural. =A0Those letters are commonly used for integer=
s
> in formulae. =A0If I write $ x sub i $, anybody who knows math would
> immediately assume that the range of x was reals and the range of i was
> integers.

When I studied maths, x and y were reals, and i wasn't. But it wasn't
integer either... :)

Chris Angelico