SPUG:Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX

[David Dyck]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 at 10:05 -0700, Brian Hatch <spug at ifokr.org> wrote:

> Out of curiousity, what languages are zero based vs one based?
> Perl is zero based (unless you use '$[ = 1')
>
> Zero based:
> 	C, C++, Perl, Python[1] ...
	bash, ksh

> One based:
> 	Fortran, awk, Perl[2]

	csh
	english (first person in line, not the zero'th, right)

> [1] IIRC
>
> [2] If you use '$[ = 1', but don't do that.