Initially I agreed, just because so many other languages do it that way.
But if you ignore that and clean slate it, IMO, 1 based makes more sense. I feel like 0 based mainly gained foothold because of C's bastardization of arrays vs pointers and associated tricks. But most other languages don't even support that.
You can only see :len(x)-1 so many times before you realize how ridiculous it is.
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I'm torn on this.
Initially I agreed, just because so many other languages do it that way.
But if you ignore that and clean slate it, IMO, 1 based makes more sense. I feel like 0 based mainly gained foothold because of C's bastardization of arrays vs pointers and associated tricks. But most other languages don't even support that.
You can only see :len(x)-1 so many times before you realize how ridiculous it is.