[REBOL] Re: R: Re: Correct Behaviour? Was False = 2 ????
From: chris:starforge at: 3-Jul-2001 19:48
#03-Jul-01# Message from [*JELINEM1--nationwide--com*]:
Hi [JELINEM1--nationwide--com],
> INDEX or POSITION? Are we mathematicians (INDEX) or, um, not (POSITION)?
We're programmers: we both and neither.
> After programming in C for a decade myself, I STILL had to mentally coerce
> myself into remembering "array starts at zero, loop until less-than the
> length...". This came from firm roots in BASIC as a first language. I
Learning BASIC is like being taught at a Catholic school (I should know, I
went to one;)) - you never get over it. My brush with BASIC was thankfully
short, after 6 or 7 years of C, c++ and now Java programming I find myself
using 0 indexed values all over the place unless I stop myself! :)
Chris
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