On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 00:26:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh 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
Dijkstra made a good argument for zero-based:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
