Indeed it's starting to sound rather more like a church than a bikeshed! I am curious what people write all day for this to be such a big issue. It's not like

Indeed it's starting to sound rather more like a church than a bikeshed! I am curious what people write all day for this to be such a big issue. It's not like you need to re-invent N-dimensional array indexing every morning -- we have abstractions. If translating code then it could be from either convention... or from a mathematics book. (Where you may note that mathematicians are unconvinced by the CS arguments... admittedly not a group of people known for taste in all matters, but taste in notation they have thought about quite a bit.)