> often, in human terms, much more natural to start from 1 This meaning of natural is highly cultural dependent. It took the Greeks a startlingly long time to

> often, in human terms, much more natural to start from 1 This meaning of natural is highly cultural dependent. It took the Greeks a startlingly long time to accept that one was a number (because it's a singleton), much less zero. I do not e.g. want arrays that can't have length one, because they have to be containing a number of things. > No need to build anything new; Well, no, not "new". Arrays with arbitrary bounds is a well-trod path. But they still had to make it work in Julia: CartesianIndices, LinearIndices, and overloading of "begin", and "end" keywords, etc. And the radical dependence on multimethod dispatch meant they couldn't quite just reuse existing work from other languages.