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This is probably because this whole debate is pedantic and irrelevant. 0-base wins, at this point it's not about picking a fork in the road, just swimming up stream for the sake of standing out. LUA is over 23 years old at this point, it made a arbitrary design decision and has had to die on that hill ever since.

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It looks like LUA is only 7 years old: https://github.com/mniip/LUA

That copyright comment doesn't say Lua is 7 years old and I don't see how you could interpret it as such. Lua is generally considered to have been created in 1993: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)

You didn't get the joke. Hint: case matters (and look at that repo :p).

Ah, gotcha

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