Re: A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages

Subject: Re: A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages
From: Charles Heywood &lt;vandor2012@ ... &gt;
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:48:25 +0000

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:47 AM David Crayford <dcrayford@gmail.com> wrote:

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