Competition places start at 0

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Analysts using Julia and Mathematica are confused by this meme.
MATLAB: And I took that personally.
- Oh it shouldn't, seeing as how it's a scripting language and not actually for programming lol
  
  That's a very narrow view of programming.
  
  It doesn't have to be
  
  https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler.html
  
  MATLAB can ruin all sorts of coding experiences, programming included
But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
- Ahem:
  
  OPTION BASE 0
  
  Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.
- Depends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.
- Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.
  
  Oh, if only that were true.
Isn’t zero the same in base-2 as it is in base-10? Wouldn’t first place be 1, second place be 10, and third place 11?
- This is about indexes starting at 0, not about binary.
  
  Gotcha. I guess that’s the difference between programmer humor and computer architect humor.

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