Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!atbowler From: atbowler@watmath.waterloo.edu (Alan T. Bowler [SDG]) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code Message-ID: <21058@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 03:40:55 GMT References: <664@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <6758@megaron.arizona.edu> <718@gtx.com> <13258@mimsy.UUCP> <531@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> <8395@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: atbowler@watmath.waterloo.edu (Alan T. Bowler [SDG]) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 9 In article <531@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes: >Gentlemen >system programmers, surely you too have algorithms that are >more accurately expressed with arrays from other than base zero? I feel like the world has gone through some strange warp. Back when I was studying numerical analysis the complaint from the mathematicians and numerical analysts was about how awkward it was to code algorithms in Fortran-IV because it used origin 1 indexing and origin 0 would clearly have been so much more "natural".