> Most PL devs refuse to do this citing how unnatural it is for themselves to reason about, and how Dijkstra was right about the beauty of 0-based indexes Than

> Most PL devs refuse to do this citing how unnatural it is for themselves to reason about, and how Dijkstra was right about the beauty of 0-based indexes Thankfully I learnt to program back in the days where languages could go both ways, or even better you could explicitly set the lower and upper bounds. Thus as programmer I never agreed with him. And it isn't as if programmers of some famous 0 based index languages don't do indexing errors all the time.