[TUHS] Array index history

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2017-Jun-07 22:45:08 -0400, Robert Swierczek <rmswierczek at gmail.com> wrote:
>Keep in mind that C was/is primarily a language to write OS's and
>other system level software.  Hardware such as memory addresses, page
>tables, disk sectors, etc. are all indexed from zero for very good
>reasons.  I would shudder to contemplate an implementation of the Unix
>V6 kernel in a hypothetical C-with-one-based-arrays language.

Two counter-examples
1) CHS numbers sectors starting from 1, not 0.
2) Pr1meOS was written in Fortran. 

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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