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Roderick Groesbeek schreef:
> "Roderick Groesbeek" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>
>> What story *must* I tell.
>> What features I *cannot* miss?
Can=E2=80=99t really help you with Eiffel (yet), I=E2=80=99m afraid, but:=
> - Fortran
> Did you know that the common used for-loop variables i,j,k are coming=
> from the language Fortran?
No. They come from mathematics. Fortran, being written by
mathematicians, took it over. i is just the first letter of index, and
j,k, =E2=80=A6 just follow it.
> - Postscript
> Reverse polish notation. ( 2 3 mul and /x 4 def, etc)
> ps2ps :) ps2ascii ps2pdf
PS is a descendant of Forth, wouldn=E2=80=99t it be better to talk about =
Forth
instead?
H.
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Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
http://aouw.org
Ask smart questions, get good answers:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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