From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: bash conversion trouble.
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:27:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <587b4178-44f8-d933-7590-2ce46bffdba6@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170228155601.GB16082@chaz.gmail.com>
On 28/02/17 07:56 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>
> So IMO the question should rather be: what got into David Korn's
> head to make its arrays start at 0?
>
Thanks, so ksh and bash are the exceptions, but bash, being so
ubiquitous, is now the de facto standard. As you say, there is the
issue of convenience vs. (perhaps) the C-ish strictness of starting at
zero, which is where computers start counting from. BTW I notice you
are one of the stalwarts on stackexchange, that's appreciated. I love
all this history stuff, it adds a certain color to the thing. Even dumb
things are more endurable when you know how it got that way.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-28 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-25 1:35 Ray Andrews
2017-02-25 4:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-25 15:13 ` Ray Andrews
2017-02-25 15:26 ` Peter Stephenson
2017-02-25 15:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-25 16:24 ` Ray Andrews
2017-02-25 17:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-25 19:13 ` Ray Andrews
2017-02-25 20:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-26 5:05 ` Ray Andrews
2017-02-26 17:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-26 18:03 ` Ray Andrews
2017-02-26 21:10 ` Shell history (Re: bash conversion trouble.) Bart Schaefer
2017-02-26 23:23 ` Ray Andrews
2017-02-28 15:56 ` bash conversion trouble Stephane Chazelas
2017-02-28 19:27 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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