• emptyother@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Learned that VERY recently from here, at NDC Oslo 2023, he mentioned it around 42:54. The whole talk is worth watching, its about the history of javascript all the way back to FORTRAN (the talk itself starts at 25:03).

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      1 year ago

      Oh wow, I thought it was because “i” was a short way of writing “index”. Then “j” was just logical after that.