Re: Lua on Reddit again

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On 31 Jan 2011, at 23:56, Andrew Lentvorski <bsder@allcaps.org> wrote:
> 
> Don't put syntax and 1-based arrays in the same breath.  They're not the same for me.
> 
> [Syntax doesn't matter] Yet, 1-based arrays always make me rage.
> 
> It's funny that this is the single thing that prevents me from using Lua more.  I've tried and tried (I think I'm probably north of 10,000 lines of Lua code written at this point), but it just never becomes natural.
> 
> I guess it's because I think in terms of ranges.  Things like micrometers and calipers were always natural to me while other people had a horrible time with them.  Shrug.

I agree with you and Dijkstra :-)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

Tony.
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