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What are your programming hot takes? (lemmy.ml)
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[-] Giooschi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

TBF everyone in school learn to start counting at 1, then they unlearn that in programming. There are also some objective reasons to use 0-based indexing https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

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