Re: BBC and DEFINT etc [Was: Using GOTO]

Rather belatedly responding to:
Article <khj5e3d0pf9930co98drb9e2ktng98orum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, wherein Happy 
Trails <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:20:47 -0500, "Judson McClendon"
><judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I'm from the old school of Maths A & B and I was taught that the
>>> indices I through N were used for *intergers*.  ...
>>
>>Shades of FORTRAN! :-)
>
>Much, much better.
>
>Concise, clever and to the point.  Leaves something for the reader to
>think about.  You finally get a mark for style.
>
>BTW, I do the same as you on this because my first job as a programmer
>was as a Fortran programmer, and I just got used to the letters.

Everyone must have started on Fortran (or maybe COBOL :) if over 30 
years ago.  I did have a *very* quick squiz at BASIC on the DEC PDP-10 
system, but never got to grips with it.  Didn't really get into BASIC 
until the Tandy Model I appeared on the scene and we all rushed off to 
a night TAFE course (2 hr/week for 5 weeks :) to learn how to program 
the damn thing.

>Never used K much - dunno why.

I had a lot of data structures that were usefully looked at in three 
"dimensions", so I used a lot of X(i,j,k) at the time.  But that was 
Fortran.  Haven't needed K for that purpose much in BASIC so I tend to 
use it for constants.  (I & J for loop indices, N for current loop 
termination, M for max loop termination as a check on current N; that 
left L for any ad hoc tem****ary integers such as length of a string.)

>BBTW - I always read your name as PH-RED, as in the litmus paper
>thing, not as FRED - why is that?

Probably your latent ambition to be an alchemist. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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