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Why did you use variables like ‘i’ or ‘j’ in for loop instead of verbos… | |
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@nixCraft my monitor only has so much space dude | |
Post #AluUFpy58EISNlO4Zc by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft Why not? | |
Post #AluUVYGAjpV85vLGzo by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft Because I grew up on dialects of Basic that either limited variable n… | |
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@nixCraft Remember when we used to write concise and clear code, economizing as… | |
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@nixCraft because thats what you did in FORTRAN in the early '70-ies - of c… | |
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@nixCraft I despise single letter variables. If you want to search repeatedly, … | |
Post #AluUgWQzriChcPdWHA by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft i for index, j because it came next. | |
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@nixCraft Actually I favor "ii" and "jj". Much easier to s… | |
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@nixCraft Because many of us started programming in the days of monochrome moni… | |
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@nixCraft these engagement questions are getting out of hand | |
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@nixCraft FORTRAN did it first, but it comes straight from math notation for su… | |
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@nixCraft Fortran and Basic corrupted my muscle memory at a young age. Remember… | |
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@nixCraft Because they were integers and I didn't want to have to declare t… | |
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@nixCraft if the line will exceed 80 columns … | |
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@nixCraft lol, why would I use anything other than $i? Six more characters? Pfft | |
Post #AluZuApFVETAQPJDw8 by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft because my math classes taught me to identify dimensions as i, j, k, l | |
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@nixCraft I used to use Scratch, and there I did use counter. Now, though, the … | |
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@nixCraft i for "iteration" and j for "jump"? | |
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@nixCraft I always use 'cnt' or 'h' so I know I've been the… | |
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@nixCraft I use just "i", "j", and other characters on shel… | |
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@nixCraft my convention is to use the first letter of the thing I'm iterati… | |
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@nixCraft Learned this way. Plus, text-only IDE (remember Turbo Pascal?), 80-co… | |
Post #Alupp7ln2FK8lZIzU8 by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft I generally use idx 🤷 | |
Post #Alur85qeVI0eGMBl0y by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft lazy | |
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@nixCraft, if it's for a quick for, I use them. if it's more complex, o… | |
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@nixCraft The first programming language I was exposed to was Fortran, in the 6… | |
Post #Aluusy1ViJVBT2JIR6 by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft Because mathematics, basically. | |
Post #AluwIgjqhW8JLIsUWu by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft Prototyping. | |
Post #AluwlFqTlejYKibIEy by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft We had an argument about variable names in loops, and i won. Period. | |
Post #Alv0CSgGSE3rp2UI4m by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft because for loops are just summations, and summations use ijk | |
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@nixCraft What about i, ii, iii, iv... ?https://juick.com/m/3049563 | |
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@nixCraft because when I learnt to program, space restrictions limited your typ… | |
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@nixCraft I lack creativity so am currently using i, noti, and alsonoti. | |
Post #AlvA2S3ytVQ8YLRk8W by [email protected] | |
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@nixCraft because its... verbose | |
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@nixCraft because punch cards! | |
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@nixCraft Lazy AF | |
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@nixCraft it's a long-standing and well understood convention, adopted from… | |
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@nixCraft with Rust I rarely find myself even touching standard for loops. Iter… | |
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@nixCraft I guess it comes from indices in Mathematics. |