alt Hacker NewsThere's nothing wrong with 1-based indexing. The only reason it seems wrong to you is because you're familiar with 0-based, not because it's inherently worse.
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IshKebab • today at 12:59 PM
That's simply untrue. 1-based indexing is inherently worse because it leads to code that is less elegant and harder to understand. And slightly less efficient but that's a minor factor.
I'll refer you to Dijkstra's "Why numbering should start at zero": https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831...