From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 19:16:48 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Array index history In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <026801d2e0ad$4e13cc10$ea3b6430$@ronnatalie.com> > FORTRAN, yes. BASIC (which dialect might we be talking about?) normally actually start with 0. However, BASIC is weird, in that the DIM statement is actually specifying the highest usable index, and not the size of the array. Eh? Not in any BASIC I ever used. They all started at 1. Can't vouch for the later Microsoft "visual" variants but the original 1970's era BASIC started with 1. DIM X(10) gave you ten elements from 1...10