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Unfortunately there's a continent full of people who don't understand that lifts start at zero. They don't even understand that they are called lifts.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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My experience also says something else too. People would ask for the lift to "come-down", or to "go-up". Instead of asking it to take you "where" you want to go.
For example, you are on 4th floor, want to goto ground floor, and lift is on 1st floor - they would press "UP" asking it to come up, take you. Instead of pressing "down", where you want to go!
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Oh yeah.... I see that almost everyday and I think: "Hummm... it's gotta be the first time they are using the elevator".
If the above is true, then man, I think I'm the person who has seen the most people using the lift for the first time.
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They left out being able to choose any positive integer for the starting index.
Still I vote for array indexes starting at zero.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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I was *that* close to adding a "other" option on the poll.
But I knew that would just confuse the issue
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Only the true comedians here would have selected it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Well the universe is homogeneous, why shouldn't be the arrays?
Yes, I'm one of the true...
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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You can in Ada, if I remember rightly, or with a negative number, but though it seems clever when you do it, the code is unmaintainable. But that goes for Ada most of the time anyway.
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CIDev wrote: Still I vote for array indexes starting at zero.
Surely zero is neither positive or negative.
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Why stop with positive. Pascal let you do something like this:
Example = Array[-5..5] of Integer;
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Ahhhhhh. I still remember my love affair with (Turbo) Pascal. What a beauty.
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There is only one "old school" language and it ain't C or Basic
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: There is only one "old school" language
Yeah! COBOL...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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OriginalGriff wrote: COBOL
COBOL is a recent fad. FORTRAN is the first real programming language.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: FORTRAN is the first real programming language.
Closely followed by Lisp.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Closely followed by Lisp.
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Strictly speaking, boolean literals didn't exist in original LISP
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Closely followed by Lisp
What about assembler?
That's the 'real' programming language. Other are artificial; everything in them is a convention, so it is starting from 0 or 1, or ever from 2
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: There is only one "old school" language and it ain't C or Basic
PL1
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Let me whip out my punch cards here...
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True old school programmers know it ain't Fortran 77 either.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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It should start at 3.1415926535 or Pi
luisnike19
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luisnike19 wrote: It should start at 3.1415926535 or Pi
That's irrational
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