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Few people truly understand the semantics of a language, but everyone knows why indexing from 1 is bad.

... that is, for some values of "everyone" ;)

jep, see Eiffel. Convention is indexing from 1. (but it allows you to do it in whatever way you want, start from 3 if you want, because hey why not -.-)

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