What's more, half-open intervals are more naturally 1-based, setting the missing point at 0. Dijkstra's arguments are very assailable, despite being trotted out

What's more, half-open intervals are more naturally 1-based, setting the missing point at 0. Dijkstra's arguments are very assailable, despite being trotted out in every discussion as arguments from authority. The crux of the issue is treating indices as offsets rather than identifiers, which is perfectly reasonable if and only if one is directly working with sequential memory.