Re: A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

I've never understood why Lua attracts so much opprobrium for 1 based 
indexing. I started my career working on mainframes and all the 
languages had 1 based indexing (COBOL, PL1, Fortran, REXX).
It wasn't until I started using C that I had ever used a language with 0 
based indexing which makes sense for a language where arrays decay to 
pointers. IMO, the Lua authors got it right.


On 28/03/2018 4:41 PM, Peter Pimley wrote:
> Lua gets a mention :)
>
> https://medium.com/@caspervonb/a-brief-totally-accurate-history-of-programming-languages-cd93ec806124