python vs d

[logicchains via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 14:53:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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.

An argument for zero-based indexing from Dijkstra: 
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html