Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

[Bernhard Herzog]

Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> It's interesting to muse about a language that starts at "1" for all
> arrays and strings, as some more or less obsolete languages do.  I
> think this is more intuitive, since most people (including
> mathematicians) start counting at "1".  The reason for starting at
> "0" is easier memory address calculation, so nothing for really high
> level languages.

There are very good reasons for half-open intervals and starting at 0
apart from memory organization.  Dijkstra explained this quite well in
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

   Bernhard

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