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Did the year zero never exist ?
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Programmer clutching their keyboards screaming "Arrays start at 0!"
Ordinals are largely used for counting and when you're counting you kind of do start a zero, most people just don't say it. When you count 1... 2... 3... it would work just as well to start 0... 1... 2... 3... So programmers can rest easy.
not all languages are 0-indexed. lua, for example.