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		esrauch on Oct 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Python uses 0-based indexing. It's because of ... Lua is probably the strongest candidate for a respected 1-based language. Smalltalk, Fortran, and MATLAB are other examples of widely used languages that are 1 based.

desireco42 on Oct 24, 2013 [–]

I am going to learn Lua and use it much more now, thanks for pointing this out. As someone said, having 0 based indexes is inhuman way of dealing with arrays, only made some sense in C, others just copied.

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