Comment by ScottPJones

Back 5.5 years ago, I used to complain about the 1 based indexing and the column-major structure of matrices in Julia (both like Fortran), however, those issues have been solved by OffsetArrays and PermutedDimsArrays, giving far more flexibility that is possible in most other languages. It's silly to keep bringing up the issue of one based indexing, when you can use any integer as the base, just like Fortran 90 (so you can index by -5..5, for example). For some things, 0 based does make things easier, sure, but you can do that easily in Julia (and more!)