On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 11:21:38 AM UTC-5, BartC wrote: > On 18/12/2016 10:59, Paul Götze wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > there is a nice short article by E. W. Dijkstra about why it makes sense > > to start numbering at zero (and exclude the upper given bound) while > > slicing a list. Might give a bit of additional understanding. > > > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF > > (This from somebody who apparently can't use a typewriter?!)
Don't judge a book by its rendering technology :) Dijkstra was "one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
