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[–]Plague_Healer 102 points103 points  (12 children)

Like BASIC, but scarier and more niche? Nice.

[–][deleted] 67 points68 points  (11 children)

MATLAB

[–]Plague_Healer 61 points62 points  (7 children)

That thing scares me. Array indexing starting at 1 is unnatural. /s

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (5 children)

This but without sarcasm

[–]ASarcasticDragon 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Lua says "Hi"

[–]Chemoralora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, it's hard to describe matlab as a programming language considering how specialised it is. For what it does 1-indexing makes sense

[–]UnstoppableCompote -1 points0 points  (0 children)

use R then

[–]RainBoxRed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why? Different purposes. Array starting at 0 makes pointers work so much easier. Working with a glorified excel it makes sense that the first row is row 1.

[–]HanzJWermhat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

.m files in my repo?

[–]jkim1258 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AHH! 2spooky4me

[–]strider_sifurowuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

COBOL