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Why does the indexing start with zero in 'C'?
Why do prevailing programming languages like C use array starting from 0? I know some programming languages like PASCAL have arrays starting from 1. Are there any good reasons for doing so? Or is it merely a historical reason?
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Because you access array elements by offset relative to the beginning of the array.
First element is at offset 0.
Later more complex array data structures appeared (such as SAFEARRAY) that allowed arbitrary lower bound.
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