8 Jun
2017
8 Jun
'17
12:19 p.m.
On 2017-Jun-07 22:45:08 -0400, Robert Swierczek <rmswierczek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Keep in mind that C was/is primarily a language to
write OS's and
other system level software. Hardware such as memory addresses, page
tables, disk sectors, etc. are all indexed from zero for very good
reasons. I would shudder to contemplate an implementation of the Unix
V6 kernel in a hypothetical C-with-one-based-arrays language.
Two counter-examples
1) CHS numbers sectors starting from 1, not 0.
2) Pr1meOS was written in Fortran.
--
Peter Jeremy