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Fortran indexes from 1. Fortran is the original higher than assembly level scientific computing language and a lot of scientists alive today got their first pro
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
Fortran indexes from 1. Fortran is the original higher than assembly level scientific computing language and a lot of scientists alive today got their first programming experience in Fortran. I suspect that they all follow from Fortran.
- sampo 11y agoFortran also gives you the option to define any starting index, when you declare an array. (Even negative.) But it's true, indexing from 1 is common, or idiomatic, in Fortran.