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Re:Julia 1.0 by peatmoss on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:39AM (#17724048)
For a numerics-oriented language this is a good choice. It’s more consistent with mathematical conventions for matrices.

0-based indexes are commonplace in programming circles because of the C language, however 1-based indexes are the earlier standard set by Fortran.

EDIT: If Julia becomes popular outside data and numerics circles, it will have pulled off nothing short of a miracle in getting people to adopt 1-based indexes. This feud is older than vi vs. emacs. :-)

Re:Julia 1.0 by Accipitriform on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:57PM (#17726661)
Julia supports 0 based indexes if desired, similar to Ada and other languages.