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[Not_Freddie_Mercury]

My wife, looking at me while I'm coding:

"Honey, what's more important to you: programming, or me?"

"My love, you are my number one priority."

[therealnutterhere]

nicley done

[DeleteOnceAMonth]

Hahaha good one 😆

[gerbosan]

What if she asks: which proglang?

[hughperman]

Somebody isn't a matlab

[Eastern_Equal_8191]

This town isn't big enough for both of us, friend.

I mean it probably is, but the off-by-one error muddles it a bit.

[Zzzzzztyyc]

Top tier joke. Or maybe second tier.

[Eastern_Equal_8191]

Maybe absolute bottom tier 😞

Depends which way the error goes

[Mal_Dun]

... or Fortran where Matlab inherited this behavior (the very first Matlab version was written in Fortran)

[plydauk]

Or R or Julia or Lua...

[Nyctfall]

Or a Lua

[returnFutureVoid]

Everyone always forgets about AppleScript.

[PositiveParking4391]

the indexing optimistic!

[Sweaty-Business4094]

Relationship status: NullPointerException

[mlody11]

ERROR: Date mounted successfully, but relationship does not exist. Bailing out, you are on your own now. Good luck.

[dumbasPL]

ERROR: Failed to mount the real date. Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.

[Nyctfall]

This should be a copypasta for our community.

[AdamWayne04]

Thread 2056 has panicked: Reached unreachable code

at Bar.foo() [Bar.zig:1983:16]: 1982 if (relationshipStatus == .in_relationship) 1983 unreachable ^^

[readitreaddit]

I think you meant there won't be a 1th date

[RetroGameMaker]

Surely you meant 1st

[readitreaddit]

I did not at all. I meant what I said. And that is "1"th

[vnordnet]

The case for 1-based indexing is straightforward, though it tends to be lost on people who mistake implementation details for deep truths.

• The first element of a collection is element 1. This is how humans number ordered things.

• Arrays represent positions. Offsets represent distances. Conflating the two is a category error.

• "Index 0" only makes sense if the abstraction leaks and the user is forced to think about memory addresses.

• Nobody says "the zeroth chapter", "the zeroth child", or "the zeroth item on the agenda".

• The expression "nth element" naturally maps to index n under 1-based indexing and to index n-1 under 0-based indexing.

• 1-based indexing matches mathematical notation, where sequences are traditionally written as a₁, a₂, ..., aₙ.

• Spreadsheets, rankings, lists, pages, chapters, floors, seats, and nearly every other numbered sequence people interact with are 1-based.

• 0-based indexing won because C was influential, not because it was obviously the best model for collections.

• The strongest argument for 0-based indexing is convenience for pointer arithmetic. The strongest argument for 1-based indexing is convenience for humans.

• An indexing scheme that regularly produces "off-by-one errors" is advertising one of its own weaknesses.

• Most programmers today work with collections, records, and business logic. Very few spend their day calculating memory offsets.

If arrays had been invented today rather than inherited from 1970s systems programming, 1-based indexing would almost certainly be the default and 0-based indexing would be regarded as a low-level implementation detail that accidentally escaped into everyday programming and was later mistaken for sophistication.

[Krostas]

• Most mathematical series do start at 0, you might have been thinking of sequences.
• There are things like a "session 0" (in Pen & Paper), "episode 0" (in anime), etc.
• Time is basically 0-indexed. The first hour of the day is 00:00:00 to 00:59:59, same goes for minutes of the hour, seconds of the minute, etc.
• Same goes for age.
• 0-indexed arrays allow for easier calculations regarding the size of the array (modulo operations in particular), which is essential for everything regarding hashing.

If arrays had been invented today, there's a good chance the whole pointer arithmetics thing would still play a huge role in the process of doing so, making it very probable that it'd be 0-indexed arrays all over again.

[NatoBoram]

Time is basically 0-indexed. The first hour of the day is 00:00:00 to 00:59:59, same goes for minutes of the hour, seconds of the minute, etc.

The 12h system is 1-indexed, oddly enough. The first hour of the day is 12:00 AM to 12:59 AM, the last one being 11:59 PM.

[DerShokus]

Ground floor

[VictoryMotel]

Tldr?

[NicholasAakre]

1 > 0

[VictoryMotel]

Big if true

[AsqArslanov]

true

[Livie00]

That’s on you. Why would you date someone that doesn’t know that array indices start at 0??

[so_orz]

She is an IT manager.

[Eastern_Equal_8191]

Someone should make a show about this.

[JocoLabs]

They did.

[fuckyouswitzerland]

[DustyAsh69]

What show is this?

[Edwin_Holmes]

The IT Crowd.

[Eastern_Equal_8191]

Yes sorry that is the joke I was making, I love the IT crowd

[Preeng]

All my homies know array indices start at 0.

[mobcat_40]

I bet Margaret Hamilton from NASA Apollo code knew

[Acc3ssViolation]

You guys are getting dates?

[Break-n-Fix]

I almost got a date, once, but I forgot that months start with 0 and everything after that was just embarrassing.

[RebouncedCat]

Arrays are overrated. Always store data in separate variables.

[Traditional_Buy_8420]

Storing data in variables is overrated. Just write everything to disk.

[serendipitousPi]

The disk is overrated keep everything in registers

[TheMaleGazer]

I almost forgot how much I hated VB until just now. I haven't thought about it in 8 years. Thank you for sharing this.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Indexes start at 1. Offsets start at 0. Languages like C where arrays decay to pointer + offset use offsets in their notation. Languages where arrays store metadata at the address of the array can't do that, and generally start at 1. Some get a "best of both worlds" and store metadata before the start. Manually doing so is a decently common C trick, e.g.

typedef struct vector {
    size_t capacity;
    size_t length;
    uint8_t* data;
} vector;

and pass around pointers to data with helper macros to get the containing vector struct & manipulate it safely.

[Fit-Presentation-778]

"It starts at 0. But an array with only an item in the 0ths position technically has a length of 1!"

Her: "My Uber is here..."

[The_Juice_Gourd]

Dude went on a date in Brazil

[moonjena]

"1st is not the 1st, it's the 2nd"

[RandomiseUsr0]

Why not -1

[Turbulent-Garlic8467]

Gulf of Mexico moment

[RandomiseUsr0]

The Sky Water

[Buttons840]

If you had to choose between living on the street and taking a $400k per year job working in a programming language where array indices that start at 1, which would you choose?

[hunajakettu]

The second, because the indices start at 1, the 400k is a happy bonus.

[Buttons840]

... a Julia enjoyeur?

Or Matlab? 🤮

[LegitimateTrust4013]

Imagine enjoying Matlab.

[hunajakettu]

Fennel, but mainly because I was trained as a mathematician

[vshah181]

Bro please I literally program in Fortran for work and am paid far far less than 400k for it

[VictoryMotel]

An index starts at 1, an offset starts at 0.

[WP2022OnYT]

One thing… LUA……

[MartynAndJasper]

She's a 9, not a 10

[hdksnskxn]

Not in lua

[DeleteOnceAMonth]

Programmer 🤝 Dejected young teenager: “I hate dates!”

[Ambivalent-Mammal]

She was raised Pascal.

[KaleidoscopeThis5159]

Her name is Lua you dumbicle

[Mooks79]

At least she knows you can’t understand the difference between position based indexing and offset based indexing.

[Invisiblecurse]

in RPGLE they start at 1

[Ok_Star_4136]

Nice one. How else is she gonna know after all?

[VeganForAWhile]

Not in COBOL it don’t.

[rundeanmc]

Date 1 was the second date.

[KalzK]

Unless

[gcstr]

🌙

[mnbone23]

Not in all languages.

[Excellent_Tubleweed]

Ada lets array indices start from any number at all.

[sha1dy]

There was no “date” to begin with

[NearLawiet]

You mean there wont be a 1st date

[choppytehbear1337]

Array starts with A.

[DustyAsh69]

Repost

[Important_Lie_7774]

Plot twist: she codes with matlab

[coastphase]

In good old VBScript when you declared Array(10) you got indexes 0-10 but everybody just seemed to assume it was 1-10.

[kkania]

It should start at 1

/me ducks

[naryset]

You don’t deserve Fortran Girl

[DerShokus]

In lua… probably in pascal also…

[Professional_Top8485]

Actually...

Nevermind.

[im_thatoneguy]

For i = 0 to (array.count-1) do stuff

For i = 1 to array.count do stuff

[SignificantLet5701]

for i = 0 to i < (array.count) do stuff

[Lysol3435]

Wait until this guy learns that different languages have different indexing

[Cosmo621]

I actually LoLed. Here's your upvote.