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Comment by leephillips

1 year ago

Yes, that’s surely why Fortran never found any widespread adoption and remained an obscure, niche language.

Did you mean, "Julia never found any widespread adoption and remains an obscure, niche language"? Fortran was the world's top programming language until the new millennium and is still among the top ten most popular. Arrays in Fortran can start from any index; the default choice is 1, which can be overridden with literally one keystroke: 0.