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by AlexeyBrin 4615 days ago
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.
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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?