> I think it just wasn't something that seemed relevant.  FORTRAN was for
> scientific computing, so at the time it had floating point as well as int=
eger.
> You could tell the data type by the name ... names beginning with I throu=
gh N
> were integers, anything else float.

That was the default ... AIUI you could confuse someone by redefining a var=
iable to the 'other' type. Not sure if it made all variables starting with =
the same letter that type, or if you could have both Int and float starting=
 with the same letter if there were more than 1 letter variable names.
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