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by cbkeller 1926 days ago
You can actually switch starting indices fairly easily in Fortran [1], or for that matter Julia, but for some reason the option doesn’t seem to be particularly widely used. People seem to give a lot of weight to the default, even when the effort to change is minimal. Added complexity/ambiguity?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48562873/zero-indexed-ar...