I personally hate 0-based counting because no
human counts 0, 1, 2 etc.. so why must computers?

Yes. That's my feeling too. Zero-based arrays/lists always generate trouble 
because of substracting or adding one in many places. It makes code much less 
readable.

But because 0-based is so
standardized in programming languages,

Well, it is mainly C that has this "standardization". In Pascal this was never 
a standard.

it's just easier to follow the crowd
than fight them. :-)

In the first place it is. But if it would be available, the crowd may change 
its mind.
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