To tell you the truth, I don’t really care about 0 or 1 based indexing, there’s not much difference when I’m coding. At the same time if you look at TIOBE, 0 b

To tell you the truth, I don’t really care about 0 or 1 based indexing, there’s not much difference when I’m coding. At the same time if you look at TIOBE, 0 based indexing won. The biggest problem for me was porting numerical code from Ruby: the syntax is so similar to Julia, that I didn’t have much to do, but porting 0 based code to 1 based was the biggest work actually. I’m sure it’s painful to port code from R or Marlab if it’s 0 based, but that will need to happen anyways.