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Oi vey, us oldies that have worked with paper tape. I've never used it in programming, but way back, when I was in the SA Air Force, I used to man a station that relayed HF radio data from Antarctica to the SA weather bureau. My main comms with down south was a teletype machine at 50 baud after error correction through a (I think Siemens) Elmux machine. If the comms were bad and the data link failed, they'd send the weather data straight to me, to capture on paper tape and later relay to the weather people.
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I now use 'loop' as it is easier to read the code though I did use i for many years just because it was the convention.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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But "loop" is a verb. 
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No, it's a word (noun and verb) that perfectly describes the intention of the code.
I try to use as much 'real' English rather than silly tokens in code: makes the intention clear and the code eminently more readable.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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silly tokens does depend on the reader.
for me, it's more clear what you mean if you use "i" than if you use "loop", but that's because i'm used to the former.
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
"Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241
"'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"
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Exactly. Know your audience. 
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*legacy coder detected*
why exactly is "loop" harder to read then "i"? Cant you read? 
Copy, paste, compile, erase
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Bit like f u n e x? (You'll need to look that up if you don't know what I mean).
Using i is so 20th century.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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mark merrens wrote: Using i is so 20th century.
That and Apple will probably patent it before long...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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i think it's alread patented...
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
"Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241
"'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"
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We programmers are a self-centered bunch. It's never about the other person, it's always "I I I" this, "I I I" that. jk, jk. lol.
Hmmm...
I suppose the letters in preference would have to be: ijklo.
An expanding counter-clockwise spiral starting with "i"!
From this, we can ascertain the correct letters to use for each new level of loop nesting: ijklouhmpygntfbrdvescwaxqz.
Any other order is incorrect.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: From this, we can ascertain the correct letters to use for each new level of loop nesting: ijklouhmpygntfbrdvescwaxqz.
How deep did you go into the spiral? I usually stop on the 'g'.
Greetings - Jacek
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I've never had a need to go past "c".
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Look at any mathematics text that is older than computers. You will find i, j, k, m, n rampant as indexes for just about any formula you can find. Also, x, y, z are common variables and A, B, C are commonly used as constants.
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Harvey
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I second the math heritage.
Remember the Capital Sigma sum sign like you see in Excel now?
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notation</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notation" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
PI is used for products.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication#Capital_Pi_notation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication#Capital_Pi_notation</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication#Capital_Pi_notation" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
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As someone already stated, I think it's i for iterator / index. But it also makes it easy to accidentally place a 1 in there e.g. dataset.Tables[1] and not spot a mistake.
Sometimes I'll use r and c if iterating through rows and columns e.g. dataset.tables[0].rows[r][c]
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But I shudder to think why someone would venture right across the keyboard for a '1' instead of an 'i'. Yes, dataset.Tables[1] will work, but why, oh the humanity, why, are you not using the table name?
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It could happen during testing, but I agree that using the table name is better.
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Brady Kelly wrote: But I shudder to think why someone would venture right across the keyboard for a '1' instead of an 'i'.
Bad habits from the type writer era.
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--Zachris Topelius
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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I tend to use Index instead of i (I definitely like verbose identifiers). And when I need several indexes, like in nested loops, I naturally call them Jndex, Kndex, Lndex... (not kidding).
I have not yet come to the point that I use Number and Mumber for counts.
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If it wasn't for our coding standard, I would employ index, jndex... today. I like that idea.
Matt
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You can use it undercover by means of a macro #define i index
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Why not just skip to "spa"
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i am using 'i' and 'j' for iterating 2D arrays because 'i' and 'j' mean x and y in Cartesian coordinates. 
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