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From: brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: Is ANSI NAPLPS different from Bell NAPLP, May '81 (answer)
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Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 13:01:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 13:01:22 1983
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Correction to minor technical detail, for anyone who cares:  it's
color mode 0 that had the color map added; color mode 1 always
required it.

As an aside, why do people insist on numbering things
from 0?  Is this an attempt to be esoteric?  I always thought that the
reason for labeling arrays from 0 was to make the offset
within an array be easily and intuitively computable.  This doesn't
seem to map well into the realm of counting things, as the high
incidence of "off-by-one" errors in programming shows.

				Bruce Cohen

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