>I've been thinking about this this morning. Who invented the zero based approach, which applies to a lot of things in several development environments, including, among others, .NET. This is always a waste of time trying to understand/find which one applies to a specific component. I mean, when I start counting, I start at 1, right? lol

We have C and Assembly language to thank for that. Arrays/indexes are based on pointers moving through a list typically and pointer offsets always start at 0. It's convention and it makes goods sense since that's how computers work.

Now obviously high level languages like C# or JavaScript have no requirements for that since they don't really use pointers at the language level but all C style languages (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, C# etc.) have always used 0 based offsets and it would be weird to use C-style languages with 1 based offsets. It would destroy the whole continuity and familiarity with the syntax.

All that said, if you're using .NET and C# use something like CodeRush or ReSharper which will auto fill for structures for you so you never really have to think about it. Additionally in C# it's not that frequent that you use for x loops - most operations in .NET involve foreach() iteration with enumerators which are much cleaner syntactly and removing the need to know anything about array indexes at all.

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