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stdbrouw
on Oct 23, 2018
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Automatic Differentiation with Julia
> But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it.
Um, that's the definition of "arbitrary".
red-tea
on Oct 23, 2018
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Programmers might like it for no known reason and as such the
preference
might be arbitrary, but the
choice
for a language to reflect that preference is not.
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Um, that's the definition of "arbitrary".