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by kbd 2533 days ago
I wasn't arguing so much that it was "objective proof", but that in contrast to "The reason for zero indexing is historical, related to pointer offsets. I don’t think anyone chose them to be easier for people.", I was pointing out that there are arguments for it as well. It's not just because "the address of an array is also the address of its first element in C".