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If you look at ranks for worldwide sporting events , you’ll note that approximately none of them indicates first (zeroth ?) place with a 0. Can you give an exam

If you look at ranks for worldwide sporting events , you’ll note that approximately none of them indicates first (zeroth ?) place with a 0. Can you give an example of a place where education at early childhood level is carried out as you claim ?

ur-whale 8y ago
>ranks for worldwide sporting events You're right ... sporting events ... how could I have not included that very scholarly pursuit of engineers, scientists and programmers in my analysis. I'm not trying to claim that 0-based is better than 1-based. I'm just trying to point out that outside of the fairly limited crowd who spend their workday in things like Matlab and R, the vast majority of coders in the world in 2018 are working in 0-based indices languages. If Julia is a worthy language which aims to attract a crowd beyond the niche R/Matlab folks, then choosing 1-based indices is poor tactics.
- orhmeh09 8y ago
  Since you mentioned children learning to count, I tried to find a general, widely known case that would be as applicable around the world, and I provided a study examining why 0 can be a difficult concept (which humankind developed very recently). The number of toddlers who are engineers in the sense I think you’re talking about is approximately zero, too. Furthermore, the widespread mathematical / scientific computing languages have used 1-based from FORTRAN through Matlab and Mathematica. Statistical papers are published with accompanying R code , very rarely with Python. If 1-based indexing is too hard to get used to, you may not be in the target audience. Anecdotally, I used C and Python well before started R, and I’m not really the smartest bulb in the box. I was annoyed for about a week. If you have the knowledge of what you will use Julia for, this hurdle seems very minor in my opinion.

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If you look at ranks for worldwide sporting events , you’ll note that approximately none of them indicates first (zeroth ?) place with a 0. Can you give an exam

by orhmeh09 8y ago

ur-whale 8y ago
>ranks for worldwide sporting events You're right ... sporting events ... how could I have not included that very scholarly pursuit of engineers, scientists and programmers in my analysis. I'm not trying to claim that 0-based is better than 1-based. I'm just trying to point out that outside of the fairly limited crowd who spend their workday in things like Matlab and R, the vast majority of coders in the world in 2018 are working in 0-based indices languages. If Julia is a worthy language which aims to attract a crowd beyond the niche R/Matlab folks, then choosing 1-based indices is poor tactics.
- orhmeh09 8y ago
  Since you mentioned children learning to count, I tried to find a general, widely known case that would be as applicable around the world, and I provided a study examining why 0 can be a difficult concept (which humankind developed very recently). The number of toddlers who are engineers in the sense I think you’re talking about is approximately zero, too. Furthermore, the widespread mathematical / scientific computing languages have used 1-based from FORTRAN through Matlab and Mathematica. Statistical papers are published with accompanying R code , very rarely with Python. If 1-based indexing is too hard to get used to, you may not be in the target audience. Anecdotally, I used C and Python well before started R, and I’m not really the smartest bulb in the box. I was annoyed for about a week. If you have the knowledge of what you will use Julia for, this hurdle seems very minor in my opinion.