A Foolish Consistency

Alfred Thompson had a good post on his blog about the way that programmers persist in using single character identifiers (i, j and k etc) for counters in loops.

I posted a comment on the post in which I put one of my favourite quotes - "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" from Emerson.

I'm presently going through back filling all my blog posts so that I don't have any gaps in the days.

Go figure.

Comments

[Alfred Thompson]

Thanks for the comment you left on my post. That's been an interesting conversation in the comments on that one which is great. I hope it is promoting some offline conversation as well. I also appreciate the link from your post. Thanks.