On Sunday, October 15, 2017 17:26:20 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 03:09:21PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/ > > > > Some good information there! > > 1-based array indexing... I don't know, but I've become so accustomed > to 0-based indexing that I doubt I'll ever be able to get used to a > language with 1-based indexing. Or whether D will ever be able to > challenge Fortran in this respect. :P
For an algorithms class that I took in college, the book used 1-based indexing for everything, and it drove me nuts. I guess that it was written for mathematicians and not programmers. - Jonathan M Davis