Comment by dmz73

I have a really hard time understanding why people like 0 based indexes. They are a relic of C style arrays that are based on and interchangeable with pointers which use offsets that are naturally 0 based. Use in later languages gives us endless off-by-1 issues and rise to "for 0 to count/len/num - 1" or even better range syntax that is start inclusive BUT end exclusive. It is a horrible cludge just to support 1970s language perfomace optimization. Arrays should start and end at whatever start index is required, not at offset 0 of pointer to fist element of array.