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Re:Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise by sweezyjeezy on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:02PM (#35932677)
Same, but I think it's more of a familiarity bias rather than a logical one. I think there is a strong argument to index from 1 as is done in MATLAB, R etc. since it matches the way most people refer and think about lists in reality.

A brave decision from the authors though, I think they would have got less flak matching the more popular 0-index languages.

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Re:Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise by sundarurfriend on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:14PM (#35932801)
> I think they would have got less flak matching the more popular 0-index languages.

Possibly, though those of us already in the space would have found it a (slightly) less pleasant language then.

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