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! :) ).
Jerry