0-based indexes are the best

2 Velocifyer 10 9/12/2025, 1:29:34 PM blog.velocifyer.com ↗

Comments (10)

mtmail · 4h ago
> That's why i write 11th september 2025 as "2025-8-10"

I read that as satire or trying to bait people (tabs vs spaces etc).

Jtsummers · 3h ago
It reads like a bad attempt at trolling. A better version would have been 5-10 paragraphs on why 0-based is better, and then hit the reader with the punchline. Instead, it's a very short piece that jumps straight to their reasoning that they're confused by things every grade schooler understands and so 0-based is better. Which is not a terribly persuasive argument.

If they intended it to be a serious argument for 0-based indexes, they should not have admitted to being less intelligent than most 5-year-olds.

Velocifyer · 1h ago
It's not trolling. It seems like people hate my opinions so they call it trolling
taylodl · 4h ago
Actually he's wrong, it would be 2024-8-10 - after all, to be consistent we'd need to start counting our years at 0.
Velocifyer · 4h ago
I already count years at 0
eimrine · 3h ago
What is the first letter of the alphabet, is it "B"?
Velocifyer · 4h ago
It was none of those.
eesmith · 4h ago
Dijkstra, 1982, "Why numbering should start at zero" - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831...
pestatije · 2h ago
lets see: whats the 1st number?
Velocifyer · 1h ago
0