On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:12:27 +0100, Lada Kugis <lada.ku...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 01 Apr 2009 08:06:28 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
There are advantages and disadvantages to both systems, but on balance,
I
think that zero-based is a better system for programming, and one-based
for natural language.
Nicely put.
Yes, along with some of your other arguments, I think I can agree that
this sums it up best. I'll just have to adapt myself to natural
language thinking at one side, and programming thinking at the other.
I always think it's sad that the concept of "zero" arrived too late to
influence our fundamentally latinate language for ordinal numbers. (In
other words, don't go thinking that there's anything logical about
natural language :-)
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