On: How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

[jhbadger]

Nearly all languages designed for mathematics are 1-based - R, Matlab, Mathematica, etc. because that's the mathematical convention and allows using formulas directly. The fact that Python isn't is a drawback in the domain.

[ModernMech → jhbadger]

Nearly all languages for non coders are this way including Excel and SQL and Scratch.