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Fortran - I'm Just an Inager All for Integer

The reason for using eye dates back to fortran. It was just the first inager value available. J, k, l, m and n, those were always inagers. You didn't have to declare them. I is just an anager all for integer. So they just set aside six values to be inagers. Any if you create a variable, that starts with i, it's going to be an inager. And then people just want to be short case. They only a ade characters, so they're like, y, would i type more than just i? The next shortest inagereon use is j, and then k.

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