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What I Hate About Your Programming Language | |
| Subject: | C, C++, Java, maybe others - zeroth element arrays | |
| Date: | 2003-05-14 08:46:50 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Response to: C, C++, Java, maybe others - zeroth element arrays
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| I can't imagine *not* using zero-based arrays. Why waste a perfectly good digit? | ||
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C, C++, Java, maybe others - zeroth element arrays
2003-05-14 09:29:51 anonymous2 [View]
Are you suggesting that *not* using zero means we may run out of digits? Ridiculous. Zero is not an element number - it is an offset.
This is an example of bending the humans to the machine, rather than bending the machine to the humans. IMHO, a fundamental mistake in the approach.