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APL let you choose. It was only trouble and then Iverson made J 0-based.
by lloda 8y ago
APL let you choose. It was only trouble and then Iverson made J 0-based.
- 4thaccount 8y agoYeah you can change when needed of course (forgot about that). Iverson's J did a lot of things (chief of them was removing the awesome symbols) to make it more appealing. A lot of folks understand the cause, but also realize it takes away one of the best reasons to use APL. So moving to 0-base wasn't necessarily because he thought it was better.