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Because 1-based languages like Fortran, Matlab, R or Mathematica are less used in scientfic computing than elsewhere?
by kgwgk 4y ago
Because 1-based languages like Fortran, Matlab, R or Mathematica are less used in scientfic computing than elsewhere?
- goatlover 4y agoMore used in scientific computing, which was my point, because only programmers think of indexing based on offset instead of the first positive integer. Nobody outside of programming in C/Unix inspired languages starts counting at 0.
- kgwgk 4y agoI may have misinterpreted you comment. When someone wrote “Going by popularity, 1-based indexing is the established convention” and you replied “Yes, but not so much in scientific computing” I understood that as “1-based indexing is less used in scientific computing compared to general computing”.
- goatlover 4y agoOh, either I replied to the wrong person or misread the parent.