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tzs
3796 days ago
In addition to Lua, these languages are 1-based: ALGOL, AWK, COBOL, Fortran, Julia, Mathematica, MATLAB, R, PL/I, and RPG.
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ufo
3795 days ago
BTW, FORTRAN is the big reason Lua has 1-based indexing. Lua' s first users were engineers, which were more familiar with FORTRAN.
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kencausey
3796 days ago
And Smalltalk
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