Re: Synchronet External Programs (Linux)
  By: Nightfox to mark lewis on Wed Jul 03 2019 02:34 pm

 >   Re: Synchronet External Programs (Linux)
 >   By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Wed Jul 03 2019 04:42 pm
 >
 >  ML> sounds like we should be doing what all good programmers do and start
 >  ML> numbering them from zero 
 >
 >   I don't think it would really matter either way.  And the only reason
 > things start at 0 for programming is due to memory locations and offsets.
 > The first element of an array is at 0 because it's 0 away from the beginning
 > (because it's at the beginning), the next one is 1 away, etc..  That makes
 > sense from a programming point of view, but people naturally like to start
 > numbering things starting with 1 for the 1st thing. 

Pretty sure he was kidding. :-)

                                            digital man

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