Some Introduction

I have been trying to learn C programming for a couple of years now, and I finally got a book called: The Elements of Programming Style. Now, in my limited experience, elements are the most simple bonds imaginable. So you can imagine my surprise when the first thing in the introduction is:

Consider the program fragment
DO 14 I=1 , N
DO 14 J=1 , N
14 V(I,J) = (I/J) * (J/I)
(Here comes the really screwed up part)
A modest familiarity with Fortran tells us that this doubly nested DO loop assigns something to each element of an N by N matrix V.

WHAT THE HELL!!! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN INTRODUCTION!!!! HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND THIS RIGHT AWAY?!!!

And this concludes my rant for today. thank you for reading.