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Mojo vs Julia (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your arguments and article are interesting, but...

1-based indexing. Come on guys. Anyone using this is smart enough to learn 0-based indexing.

Julia is high-level language. 1 is the one thing, 0 is nothing.

steering wheel in a jet fighter

The steering wheel is 0-based indexing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

High or low level doesn't matter. Mathematically it just makes more sense to use 0-based indexing https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know what I am writing, 0 stands for nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yes it means nothing. as in, you take the array, and move the reading position by nothing

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

You could phrase it like that for low-level lang, but it is so extra.....

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