From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T00:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

On 7/16/07, Axel Etzold <AEtzold@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Raphael Gillett wrote the following on 16.07.2007 15:22 :
> > > [...]
> > > 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.
>
> Dear Raphael,
>
> from http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982?&print=yes,
>
>  an overview article about the history of around 6000 computer programming
> languages:
>
>
>
> "Still another perennially contentious issue is how to count. This one brings out >the snarling dogmatism in the meekest programmer. Suppose we have a list of three >items. Do we number them 1, 2, 3, or should it be 0, 1, 2?

Both ideas are completely stupid, there is only one err zero err 42 solutions.
42, 43, 44

Robert

-- 
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java.
I just didn't know it would be called Ruby
-- Kent Beck