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Re:Automatic Differentiation with Julia by stdbrouw on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @07:39AM (#18282493)
> But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it.

Um, that's the definition of "arbitrary".

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Re:Automatic Differentiation with Julia by red-tea on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:48AM (#18282877)
Programmers might like it for no known reason and as such the preference might be arbitrary, but the choice for a language to reflect that preference is not.
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