OT: What is BASIC? (was Re: What is Python?)

Jan Dries jdries at mail.com
Thu Sep 21 19:53:13 EDT 2000


Aahz Maruch wrote:
> That "feature" was essentially borrowed directly from FORTRAN.  IIRC,
> FORTRAN variables starting with I-N defaulted to ints.  Now you know why
> the canonical loop variables are "i" and "j".

That's also why in FORTRAN, God is real :-)



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