[anonymous]

1-based indexing is insane. In the literal sense. I can kind of conceive of a mind that doesn't run away when introduced to a 1-based language. Some young, inexperienced mind which doesn't understand numbers yet. I cannot at all conceive what madman would actually like 1-based indexing. Their mind must operate on principles completely alien to the rest of us and should, preferably, not be allowed to write programs.

[AlexeyBrin]

I suppose you are simply trolling, otherwise a simple programming language history lesson will show you that one of the first compiled languages, Fortran, has one based indexes.

[anonymous]

I wasn't trolling. It feels positively deranged. Like having all numbers be written in Roman numerals for instance. I don't get your point about Fortran. Deeply flawed languages have existed for a long time?