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Why 'for', not 'from' ?

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> Jun 02, 2003
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Dear EU users:

There is well known "for loop" in most of
programming languages.

But why it is "for", not "from" ?

Say, the below construction seems to be much 
more clear than standard one :

from i=1 to 100 do
----
end from


for i=1 to 100 do
----
end for

Or, maybe, that programmer was not the 
English programmer, but a great Mumbo-Jumbo one ?

Or, maybe, my Muller's dictionary is not so good
about the main words ?

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru