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Oh yeah.... I see that almost everyday and I think: "Hummm... it's gotta be the first time they are using the elevator".
If the above is true, then man, I think I'm the person who has seen the most people using the lift for the first time.
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They left out being able to choose any positive integer for the starting index.  
Still I vote for array indexes starting at zero.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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I was *that* close to adding a "other" option on the poll.
But I knew that would just confuse the issue
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Only the true comedians here would have selected it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Well the universe is homogeneous, why shouldn't be the arrays?
Yes, I'm one of the true...
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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You can in Ada, if I remember rightly, or with a negative number, but though it seems clever when you do it, the code is unmaintainable. But that goes for Ada most of the time anyway.
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CIDev wrote: Still I vote for array indexes starting at zero.
Surely zero is neither positive or negative.
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Why stop with positive. Pascal let you do something like this:
Example = Array[-5..5] of Integer;
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Ahhhhhh. I still remember my love affair with (Turbo) Pascal. What a beauty.
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There is only one "old school" language and it ain't C or Basic 
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: There is only one "old school" language
Yeah! COBOL... 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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OriginalGriff wrote: COBOL
COBOL is a recent fad. FORTRAN is the first real programming language.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: FORTRAN is the first real programming language.
Closely followed by Lisp.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Closely followed by Lisp.
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Strictly speaking, boolean literals didn't exist in original LISP
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Closely followed by Lisp
What about assembler?
That's the 'real' programming language. Other are artificial; everything in them is a convention, so it is starting from 0 or 1, or ever from 2
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: There is only one "old school" language and it ain't C or Basic
PL1
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Let me whip out my punch cards here...
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True old school programmers know it ain't Fortran 77 either. 
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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It should start at 3.1415926535 or Pi 
luisnike19
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luisnike19 wrote: It should start at 3.1415926535 or Pi
That's irrational
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Not enough precision to be practical.
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It should be consistent across programming languages, regardless of whether they are low or high level, otherwise it'll be a recipe for confusion amongst programmers who use a variety of languages. The underlying memory allocation is zero-based, so it makes sense to leave it that way.
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