In article <91t6t4hfjicgvdrcgkhdjfro3ko3ktu...@4ax.com>, Lada Kugis <lada.ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:40:17 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks > <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Lada, > > > >I am also an engineer, and I can tell your idea of intuitive is not > >universal, even among engineers. I certainly do not lean toward one- > >based indexing. > > > >From a programming standpoint--and remember Python is a programming > >language--zero-based indexing eliminates the need for a whole lot of > >extra +1s and -1s when indexing, slicing, and iterating, a lot more > >than it causes, and that is worth the "cost". This might not be > >apparent to you if you never tried seriously taking advantage of > >indexing from zero, or if your programming experience is very narrow. > >These both seem to be true for you, so you'll just have to take my > >word for it. > > > You have repeated several cs based points already stated. But apart > from a programming standpoint - could you give a few examples, where > "on paper" (as to avoid stepping into "programmer's territory") zero > indexing could be more intuitive ? This has become a moving target. I thought your original complaint was about Python (the programming language) vs. Fortran (the programming language) and C (the programming language used in an odd way). -- -- Lou Pecora -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
