Re: [TUHS] Array index history - TUHS

8 Jun 2017

...
  Basically, until C came along, the standard practice
was for indices
 to start at 1. Certainly Fortran and Pascal did it that way. 
Mercury Autocode used 0.

  http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/jwp/history/mercury/manual/autocode/4.jpg

-- Richard

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