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From: pete@dunnington.plus.com (Pete Turnbull)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 03:14:20 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] Array index history
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On 09/06/2017 02:19, Toby Thain wrote:
> I wrote a lot of BBC BASIC. DIM(9) allocates ten elements, 0..9, 

Yes, all versions (of which there are at least nine, going back to 
1981), and so too does its predecessor, Atom BASIC.  Indexing from zero 
was the norm in 1970s/1980s BASICs.

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Pete
Pete Turnbull