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Comment by catblast

In the context of language design, the arguments for 0-based indexing rise above bikeshedding. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

Sure it may not be the most critical point about language design, but it's not just bikeshedding either. For one thing, it is a language semantics issue rather than plainly syntax issue.

I still like Lua, and maybe you don't even agree with Dijkstra's argument, which is also possible to make, but doesn't mean its bikeshedding - which seems to be a totally overused term to basically mean any argument I don't want to have.

parent catblast 6 years ago

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