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GregLindahl (talk | contribs) history is important, kids. just because you're young doesn't mean you should ignore everything that happened before you began programming. That's doubly true when you're writing a wikipedia article. |
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I don't even think thats an eccentricity since its fairly common in programming to do it that way --Alan D
:Fairly common today, but it wasn't in the Good Old Days. That makes it a fad, albeit a fairly long running one. Hint: make a list of languages since Day 1 and see when numbering from 0 began. GregLindahl
Java uses the same numbering scheme. Possibly because there is a zero-based array of month names. Although numbering from zero in both C and Java is more of a convenience for the routines that perform array handling than anything else. If your array starts at ___location AC00, the address of the 0th element is AC00, the address of element 1 is AC00 + element_length, the address of the 2nd element is AC00 + 2 * element_length, and so on. I prefer to start at element 1, but we're all pretty much stuck with the convention. (Perhaps I'll step up and start writing about software engineering, something I actually have some expertise in.) [[Ed Poor]]▼
▲Java uses the same numbering scheme. Possibly because there is a zero-based array of month names. Although numbering from zero in both C and Java is more of a convenience for the routines that perform array handling than anything else. If your array starts at ___location AC00, the address of the 0th element is AC00, the address of element 1 is AC00 + element_length, the address of the 2nd element is AC00 + 2 * element_length, and so on. I prefer to start at element 1, but we're all pretty much stuck with the convention. (Perhaps I'll step up and start writing about software engineering, something I actually have some expertise in.) [[Ed Poor]]
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