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Re:Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf] by krapp on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @09:50AM (#8394261)
Off by one errors are enough of a problem without having to remember that lua decided [1] means something other than what [1] means in almost every other language, so plan accordingly.

It's not critical, but it does matter.

Re:Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf] by sitkack on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @06:49PM (#8398307)
c) the audience. Lua was designed a scripting and data environment to run simulations in Fortran. So the customer was already using 1 based indexing.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

Re:Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf] by krapp on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @07:10PM (#8398406)
Well... Fortran sucks.