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Date: 7 Jan 93 08:09:43 GMT
From: agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.
it!univ-lyon1.fr!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!lglsun!magnus@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Magn
us Kempe)
Subject: Re: Enum's start at 0?
Message-ID: <1993Jan7.090943@lglsun.epfl.ch>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Timothy M. Schreyer asks:
: ... why do string indices start at 1? :-)

A closet Pythagorean in the Ada design team got rational arithmetic
into the compilers; similarly, a disciple of Parmenides strove to
find the one in the many and upheld that what is not, is not.  Thus,
String indices start at 1, not in the void of 0.

Ada is the language for those who have love of wise programming, a
derived type of philosophers.
-- 
Magnus Kempe            "I have sworn ... eternal hostility to every form of
magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch    tyranny over the mind of man."  -- Thomas Jefferson