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		quickthrower2 on Aug 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do arrays start at 0? Fron the article: > It's not the reason you think. No, it's not that reason either. Indexing is a language level concern, it has nothing to do with the generated code. Unless you write machine code I guess.

Tao3300 on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

> Indexing is a language level concern

IIRC, Visual Basic 6 took a why not both? approach to array indexing.

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