From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Date: Thu,  8 Jun 2017 10:16:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [TUHS] Array index history
In-Reply-To: arnold@skeeve.com's message of Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:20:43 -0600
Message-ID: <20170608091652.639C8130C058@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>

> 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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