“So: the technical reason we started counting arrays at zero is that in the mid-1960′s, you could shave a few…” http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ …
@AdrienHerubel @bjoernknafla it completely ignores the quote from the BCPL creator and argues about compile time efficiency without sources
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@bjoernknafla@delroth_@AdrienHerubel The real reason for zero-indexed should be that the generated code becomes simpler: base+index*elemSz - 4 more replies
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