[lokedhs]

That's confusing ordinal and cardinal numbers. The element with index 0 is the first number. The element with index 1 is the second number, and so on.

Using the term "zeroth" is basically some form of showing off (even though it's kinda fun), but will be utterly confusing when you get to the fifty-second element which is the last in a group of 53 elements.

[wizofaus]

I'm not confusing them, my point about abbreviating "first" as 1st was that in typical speech we start counting at 1. Nobody says "let's start with item zero on the list". But programmers are stuck with having to say/think "item 0 in the array".

[lokedhs]

I don't disagree with you. I just don't think a programmer should be confused about the statement "item 0 is the 1'st item".