From: kevin cline <kevin.cline@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T16:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

On Jul 16, 8:22 am, Raphael Gillett <r.gill...@rational.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
> Ruby aims to be a human friendly programming language that embodies the
> principle of least surprise...

> 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.

With 50+ years of collective experience, it seems clear that zero-
based arrays lead to the simplest code.