Why Physicists Still Use Fortran

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On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 00:26:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 03:09:21PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/
>> 
>> Some good information there!
>
> 1-based array indexing...  I don't know, but I've become so 
> accustomed to 0-based indexing that I doubt I'll ever be able 
> to get used to a language with 1-based indexing.  Or whether D 
> will ever be able to challenge Fortran in this respect. :P

Dijkstra made a good argument for zero-based:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html