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> "Naming things" is one of the two hard problems in computer science. For those who don't know, the other two are: Cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

• The_rationalist 5y ago
  1 instead of zero index based languages such as e.g Julia therefore remove a LOT of cognitive overhead.
  • planb 5y ago
    Not using indices at all when iterating whenever possible completely eliminates the cognitive overhead.
    • The_rationalist 5y ago
      Yes except when it's not possible or require non-reusable custom iterators.