Mathematicians don't build GUIs, and nobody else can stand starting their arrays...

dlcarrier · 2026-02-01T16:40:04 1769964004

Lua also let's you start arrays at 3.

zimpenfish · 2026-02-01T16:58:16 1769965096

As does Perl with `$[`[0][1]

[0] "This variable stores the index of the first element in an array, and of the first character in a substring."

[1] With the caveat: 'As of Perl v5.30.0, or under "use v5.16", or "no feature "array_base"", $[ no longer has any effect"'

ErroneousBosh · 2026-02-01T17:40:17 1769967617

You can start your arrays in Lua at 0. Conventionally you don't, but you can.

pjmlp · 2026-02-02T07:32:59 1770017579

Plenty of languages use either 1 as base or flexible array indexes.

moffkalast · 2026-02-02T08:33:30 1770021210

And we can make fun of them equally, there's enough mocking to go around.