Humans, including devs, thinks in english. You think "take the first element of the list" not "take the zeroth element" Cognitive overhead can often be formaliz

Humans, including devs, thinks in english. You think "take the first element of the list" not "take the zeroth element" Cognitive overhead can often be formalized as a mismatch between mapping the syntax (here zero based indexing) to the intended meaning.