Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Classic BASIC actually splits the difference.
dim a(10)
allocates 11 elements, indexed 0..10 -- but most classes tend to ignore element 0, and algorithms are as if only 10 elements exist starting at 1.
Basic also has the OPTION BASE instruction, which affects that.
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