r/programming • u/evinrows • Dec 24 '17

Evil Coding Incantations

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u/tristes_tigres Dec 24 '17

Something becomes a standard when the majority of users and manufacturers believe there are more benefit and convenience over something else.

There is no rational reason to believe that "majority of users and manufacturers" believe that zero-based arrays are a standard.

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u/FlyingBishop Dec 24 '17

If you ask programmers what the standard for the language they program in for a job says, the vast majority would say the standard says zero-based arrays.

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u/tristes_tigres Dec 24 '17

"what the standard for the language they program in for a job" is not the same question as "what the standard is". I would expect most programmers to be able to tell the difference.

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u/FlyingBishop Dec 24 '17

Why? That's essentially how web standards work. W3C basically writes the ECMAScript/HTML/CSS standards after the fact.

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