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- Subject: Re: A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:16:22 +0200
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 7:46 AM, David Crayford <dcrayford@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Totally agree - in fact the decision was to fit in with technical but
non-programmer users who were accustomed to 1-based indexing like
Fortran.
It is also a mystery why some people base technical decisions on silly
reasons - it's possible that they are simply more vocal and
fundamentally unserious people.
