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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by ogogmad on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:20PM (#24732802)
The points he makes are so extremely minor... You could just as easily say that natural language and mathematical convention are index-1.
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by e12e on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:11PM (#24735674)
I never understood the fascination with preferring "the element at zero offset from the start" to "the first element" - and I don't think djiskarta makes a compelling argument.
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