Even among scientists there are people who don't like 1-indexed arrays (me, one data point)! However, Julia 0.7 and 1.0 have the keyword "begin" so that you can

Even among scientists there are people who don't like 1-indexed arrays (me, one data point)! However, Julia 0.7 and 1.0 have the keyword "begin" so that you can basically program arrays in an index-agnostic way.