Hungarian notation (was RE: variable naming...)

[Greg Ewing]

Jan Dries wrote:
> 
> the use of i, j, k, ... for integers (and f, g, ... for real
> numbers) has nothing to do with Hungarian notation but comes from
> FORTRAN

...which in turn got it from mathematicians, who
were using such conventions long before there were
any computers.

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