From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T08:02:38+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

On 19/07/07 John M. Gamble said:

> >Actually, if Ruby had been implemented in Fortran or Pascal, then most
> >certainly arrays would have begun indexing with 1 instead of 0.
> 
> Well, if one were to blindly follow one's predecessors, yes - at least
> with Fortran.  Pascal lets you determine the array range, so you could
> have the option of starting with zero.  And indeed, when we first
> encountered that possibility, zero got used a lot.

I believe that Fortran also prevents recursion. Perhaps we should dump that
silly feature of Ruby too. ;-)

Mike
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