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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by jfager on Saturday February 18, 2012 @07:45AM (#3606490)
Matlab, Octave, Mathematica, and other mathematical programming environments use 1-based indexing, it's a well-established norm for the domain.
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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by Loic on Saturday February 18, 2012 @07:54AM (#3606498)
Fortran too and in HPC we all code in Fortran a lot. Look at the loop construct:

     for i = 1:t
in Fortran:

     DO I=1,T
The ability to load both C and Fortran dynamic libraries is also really really nice.
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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by ced on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:41AM (#3606779)
Does 1-based indexing have any advantage, beyond familiarity to scientists?
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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by cscheid on Saturday February 18, 2012 @02:38PM (#3607501)
Dijkstra to the rescue: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by jballanc on Saturday February 18, 2012 @12:44PM (#3607115)
With 1-based indexing, length == last index.

Does 0-based indexing have any advantage, beyond ability to do pointer arithmetic with indexes?

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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by scott_s on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:55PM (#3608607)
In 0-based indexing, n % length is a value inside the range.
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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by jfager on Saturday February 18, 2012 @12:42PM (#3607105)
Not really, but it's not important either way.
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