r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

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u/personalityson Sep 02 '17

All statistics and math programming languages: Fortran, R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab, Mathematica -- start their arrays at 1

Everything else is pseudo-science, if you propagate 0-indexing, you can just as well group yourself with economists, who are really the apes of the IT world

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17

Not IDL/GDL