0-based indexing was "here" long before C was created. Lisp or Algol are more or less contemporary to Fortran. The former uses 0-based indexing, the latter can

0-based indexing was "here" long before C was created. Lisp or Algol are more or less contemporary to Fortran. The former uses 0-based indexing, the latter can use arbitrary bounds. As does Fortran at least since the seventies, by the way.