The best part is that he starts off with the "usual" one-based indexing, and then decides to change the indices because it suits his situation better. Us progra

The best part is that he starts off with the "usual" one-based indexing, and then decides to change the indices because it suits his situation better. Us programmers mostly have to stick to the indexing scheme baked into our programming language; we can't switch things up based on the problem without introducing a separate abstraction to proxy access through.