From: Michael Ulm <michael.ulm@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T22:58:05+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

Raphael Gillett wrote:
> 
> 
> The pebble in the Ruby shoe is the counter-intuitive use of indexing of
> elements of arrays, strings, etc., from 0 to n-1 instead of the more
> natural 1 to n.   Like prisoners who have got used to their chains, the
> Ruby community seems to have meekly accepted this impediment to clear
> thinking.   It is particularly puzzling that Ruby should hobble its
> users in this way, because it is manifestly unnecessary (e.g., Fortran
> and Pascal don't do it).
> 

I, for one absolutely hate 1 based arrays in programming languages.
It creates a thousand little problems that one has to program around.
Ruby got it Right (again).