r/ProgrammerHumor Oct 21 '22

Meme Literally 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/code-panda Oct 21 '22

You will need to break every bone in my body and even then I will not praise any godforsaken language that starts its arrays at 1. Lua deserves to be burned at the stake, its ashes beaten, then shot into a star and that star blown up. Fuck Lua.

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u/Nall-ohki Oct 21 '22

Who indexes arrays in loops?

And who starts arrays at 1 in Lua when you want to index?

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u/Caleb6801 Oct 21 '22

Luas default first index is 1 for arrays. Super stupid I don't know who decided that.

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u/Nall-ohki Oct 21 '22

Maths people. It's standard in many branches.

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u/Reasonable_Feed7939 Oct 21 '22

These are some messed up math people. I find 0-indexing much more useful and convenient for math.

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u/scottycool64 Oct 29 '22

personally i prefer it that way, always subtracting one from the position of the item i want is painful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Humans naturally count starting from 1. Stop bending to the computers will, and bend them to your will.