mastermind@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years agowhy not a,b or x,y?lemm.eeimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1670arrow-down143
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minus-squarespauldo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoWhen the practice started, most (if not all) programming languages used capital letters. IIRC the computers that ran early FORTRAN (which is where the I,J,K, etc. convention comes from) didn’t even support lower case letters.
When the practice started, most (if not all) programming languages used capital letters. IIRC the computers that ran early FORTRAN (which is where the I,J,K, etc. convention comes from) didn’t even support lower case letters.