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For me, the biggest positive is avoiding indexing errors between 0-indexed languages (Python) and 1-indexed data (almost everything I get). Patient IDs, simulat
by Fomite 13y ago
For me, the biggest positive is avoiding indexing errors between 0-indexed languages (Python) and 1-indexed data (almost everything I get). Patient IDs, simulation code, etc. hardly ever starts with "0" as the first ID unless it's been created by a computer scientist, and having to make sure everything is looking at ID-1 instead of ID is a pain. And makes code less useful to people who use the code instead of making it.