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by stdbrouw 2803 days ago
> But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it.

Um, that's the definition of "arbitrary".
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red-tea 2803 days ago
Programmers might like it for no known reason and as such the preference might be arbitrary, but the choice for a language to reflect that preference is not.
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