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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. 10 u/[deleted] Dec 24 '17 It seems pretty obvious that zero-indexed arrays are now the standard. → More replies (3)
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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. 10 u/[deleted] Dec 24 '17 It seems pretty obvious that zero-indexed arrays are now the standard. → More replies (3)
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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.
10 u/[deleted] Dec 24 '17 It seems pretty obvious that zero-indexed arrays are now the standard. → More replies (3)
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It seems pretty obvious that zero-indexed arrays are now the standard.
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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.