python vs d

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On Monday, 28 April 2014 at 22:31:58 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> What's the good of having all arrays always start from index 1 
> (this is different from Ada, where you can choose the indexing 
> range and type)?

I'd say, for a math-oriented language starting position 1 is more 
meaningful than starting offset 0, the latter is an idiom for 
system programming language, the former better corresponds to 
mathematical formalism.