The Sins Of The Parent Codebase

The Sins Of The Parent Codebase
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The sins of the parent codebase are visited upon the child. That poor kid was doomed from the moment mom decided arrays should start at 1 instead of 0. It's like being born into a family that puts milk before cereal โ€“ fundamentally wrong at the core level. Some programming traumas just get passed down through generations, and starting arrays at 1 is the equivalent of digital hereditary trauma. The kid never stood a chance.