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Re: bash conversion trouble.



On 28/02/17 07:56 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

So IMO the question should rather be: what got into David Korn's
head to make its arrays start at 0?

Thanks, so ksh and bash are the exceptions, but bash, being so ubiquitous, is now the de facto standard. As you say, there is the issue of convenience vs. (perhaps) the C-ish strictness of starting at zero, which is where computers start counting from. BTW I notice you are one of the stalwarts on stackexchange, that's appreciated. I love all this history stuff, it adds a certain color to the thing. Even dumb things are more endurable when you know how it got that way.




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