Arrays Start At Zero, Not Wine

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Arrays Start At Zero, Not Wine

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The legacy of zero-indexing strikes again! While most humans count from 1, programmers know arrays start at 0 in most languages. This poor child's fate was sealed when mom insisted on starting her array at 1 instead of 0 during pregnancy. The result? A kid destined to commit the cardinal sin of programming—using 1-based indexing. It's basically hereditary at this point. That kid is going to grow up to be the colleague who writes for(i=1; i<=length; i++) and makes everyone's eye twitch during code reviews.

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