Carl Lowenstein wrote:
My Fortran II ingrained memory says that the allowable form of a
subscript was  C1 * V + C2.

It was something like that. But yah, it's not because the programmers didn't know how to compile more complicated index expressions. It's because that's what the index registers of the time could do natively.

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