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minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years now. ‘A’, at index 0*, is the first thing in the array. * well, unless you’re using some language that actually is not zero-indexed. I think LUA is one?
minus-squareNateNate60@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThat’s because you use English, a language where ordinals traditionally begin at one.
minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoSo, based on Every programmer knows that ‘A’ in [‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’] would be the 0th item; the first item is ‘B’ You’re saying I can’t be a programmer because I speak English?
I’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years now. ‘A’, at index 0*, is the first thing in the array.
* well, unless you’re using some language that actually is not zero-indexed. I think LUA is one?
That’s because you use English, a language where ordinals traditionally begin at one.
So, based on
You’re saying I can’t be a programmer because I speak English?