>>> On 1/17/2011 at 8:34 AM, in message <[email protected]>, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In <p062408aec95813a3450b@[192.168.1.11]>, on 01/15/2011 > at 10:32 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> said: > >>Computer Arrays are OFFSETS > > No. Subscripts are labels, and need not begin from zero or even be > contiguous. > >>Thus they start at 0 > > The Don't in Fortran. They Don't in Algol. They don't in PL/I.
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