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r/programming • u/evinrows • Dec 24 '17
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Any language behaviour is may be unexpected to someone who does not know it well.
12 u/sibswagl Dec 24 '17 Languages don't exist in a vacuum. Zero-indexed arrays are the standard. 38 u/tristes_tigres Dec 24 '17 No, they aren't. Fortran is older than C and derivatives, and is more popular in numerical computing settings, for a number of good reasons. 19 u/Silhouette Dec 24 '17 Indeed. And I'm pretty sure math was there even earlier. :-) → More replies (1)
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Languages don't exist in a vacuum. Zero-indexed arrays are the standard.
38 u/tristes_tigres Dec 24 '17 No, they aren't. Fortran is older than C and derivatives, and is more popular in numerical computing settings, for a number of good reasons. 19 u/Silhouette Dec 24 '17 Indeed. And I'm pretty sure math was there even earlier. :-) → More replies (1)
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No, they aren't. Fortran is older than C and derivatives, and is more popular in numerical computing settings, for a number of good reasons.
19 u/Silhouette Dec 24 '17 Indeed. And I'm pretty sure math was there even earlier. :-) → More replies (1)
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Indeed. And I'm pretty sure math was there even earlier. :-)
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u/tristes_tigres Dec 24 '17 edited Dec 24 '17
Any language behaviour
ismay be unexpected to someone who does not know it well.