Vladimir Ignatov <kmis...@gmail.com> writes: >>> I had some experience programming in Lua and I'd say - that language >>> is bad example to follow. >>> Indexes start with 1 (I am not kidding) >> >> What is so bad about that? > > It's different from the rest 99.9% of languages for no particular reason. > > ( => perfect example of "design smell" => not a good example to follow) >
It is not just a matter of tradition. Even if you were to invent the very first programming language; there are reasons to prefer the zero-based indexing. See "Why numbering should start at zero" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
