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> Aside from the fact that 1-based indexing is better for scientific code

I find it to be substantially worse. It's fine as long as you don't manipulate the indicies. But as soon as you start doing math on them 1 based becomes a headache (at least IME).

Meanwhile all you get in exchange (at least as far as I can tell) is ease of speaking about them in natural language. But I'm not usually conversing about indicies.

Concise range notations are a mixed bag. There's pros and cons to either scheme there as far as the syntax goes.