On Aug 19, 12:13 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove- > While businesses are conservative in which languages they choose, > language designers are not conservative in the design features they come > up with. That there has been a gradual (although as yet incomplete) > convergence towards zero-based indexing in languages aimed at > programmers, and one-based indexing in languages aimed at non- > programmers, tells you everything you need to know.
I beg to differ. I remember reading Bjarne Stroustrup's rationale for adopting all sorts of junk from C that he really didn't want, just to make C++ reasonably compatible with it. Had he not done that, C++ probably would have died on the vine. I'm sure the same was true of Java and Python too. In any case, I need to drop this discussion and move on. Mr. D'Aprano, I usually find your posts enlightening and amusing, but in this case just don't seem to be converging. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
