Julia's docs say that it supports "Julia supports arrays with arbitrary indices": https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/ https://docs.julialang

Julia's docs say that it supports "Julia supports arrays with arbitrary indices": https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/ https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/ So let's break that down. The base standard library and "idiomatic" Julia are both largely written without the assumption of 1-based indexing, instead dispatching to what you think about as an array-oriented dsl, which is this interface: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/interfaces/#man-interface-array https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/interfaces/#man-inte... It is very normal in Julia to implement such interfaces to do what you want. Julia uses these types of internal interfaces with multimethods in lieu of a lot of compiler intrinsics. So I would say Julia and Fortran have different implementations of arbitrary indexing. They are both oriented around core design features of each respective language.