Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
I've read it, and while interesting, it doesn't bear much on the issue. It's obfuscatory rather than explicative. I've also done the counting starting with 0, but only tongue-in-cheek--you can look around and see who the other geeks are by who's grinning instead of looking puzzled, annoyed, or angry. Counting counts how many there are, and the first one is 1. Indexing denotes a displacement into a list and starts with 0. Both are quite natural, but it doesn't make sense to say that counting should start from 0 because 0 is a more natural first index. And that's what the article says. I love Dijkstra, but after all, he is one of us geeks, so of course he would have fun whipping this out and posting it. <grin;>. That doesn't make counting from 0 a good communication skill:) Patrick |
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