On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 20:33 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 12/6/2013 5:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
André Nunes Batista wrote:
BTW, why did they change that? Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way
to teach gui users to count.
Hmm... I disagree. Counting and indexing are two different things.
Indexes start at zero. Counting starts at one.
This is often described as the classic fencepost problem.
Bob
In SOME languages, indexing starts at 0. C was the first popular
language to do this. Older languages such as BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL
start at 1 (unless that's also changed in the last 20 years! :) ).
Note folks, you only seem to think about computers. But the logic has
less to do with computers, it does effect computers too, but is not
related to computers, it's a logical issue.
The logical issue, math isn't logic, is not a computer related problem,
it's real live math from a long, long time before humans know computers.