I love scipy, ... except for zero based indexing. I might not be as bright as some, but I hated always figuring out "If I have a set of ten items, the index is

I love scipy, ... except for zero based indexing. I might not be as bright as some, but I hated always figuring out "If I have a set of ten items, the index is from 0 to 9". Zero indexing is also NOT how real math is written in textbooks. C uses zero indexing because DOES describe byte offsets really well. In octave/ matlab the for looops are a lot easier to think about. All in all, octave is quickly becoming a very viable alternative to Matlab.