In defense of 0, was Re: [Edu-sig] None potato, one potato, two potato, more..

Kirby Urner urnerk at qwest.net
Fri Jan 2 18:13:44 EST 2004


Terry:
> By contrast, I had endless headaches with both FORTRAN (1
> to N) and C  (1 to N-1) indexing schemes, especially with
 
C is zero-based, like Python, no?

I like Python's slicing too -- very intuitive and powerful syntax, for
something one often needs.

Kirby





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