[hgomersall]

In language design, a choice is necessary. You can support all possible indexing strategies, but that's problematic for a whole different set of reasons. So you need to choose, index from 1 or from 0. I've never once thought my algorithmic implementation is mucky because of the index from zero, inclusive lower bound, exclusive upper bound policy languages. I used to regularly lament how ugly the MATLAB code was for that reason. Unless MATLAB had bolted on another language feature to solve that problem, I'll let my extensive (albeit 15 years old) use of MATLAB in signal processing algorithm implementation be my aesthetic guide.

[fluidcruft]

I'm not here to defend Matlab as some aesthetic language (in fact why on earth they haven't poached more of Octave's syntax improvements remains an eternal mystery) so if you just want to bitch about Matlab go right ahead ;)

[hgomersall]

The scars run deep.