As we used to say when I was a little kid: “Zero the hero, first the worst.”
Isn’t zero the same in base-2 as it is in base-10? Wouldn’t first place be 1, second place be 10, and third place 11?
This is about indexes starting at 0, not about binary.
Gotcha. I guess that’s the difference between programmer humor and computer architect humor.
But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.
Oh, if only that were true.
What? People still use VB? dear god…
Languages don’t die. They have long tails.
Fucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!
They definitely do, especially legacy stuff that’s still kicking. Sweet, sweet tech debt that you hope won’t be a real problem until you’ve moved to a different company.
