On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:58 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > However, since computers always start counting with 0 it was natural > for programming languages to do the same. This is just one example of > how that shows to the users. More like programmers never really put any good thought into what they were doing. The number of times I recall having to fix up someone's FOR A = 0 TO 10 sort of things so they'd count the right number of times... How many fingers am I holding up...? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.