Python "why" questions

[Thomas Jollans]

On 2010-08-08 05:18, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	Was it this thread where I commented that many early BASICs would
> allocate an eleven element array on
>
> DIM A(10)
VB.net does this -- to cater for the classic VB programmer who is used
to being able to index the number in brackets, and the .net framework,
which uses 0-based indexing (as everything else would look silly in C#,
or, especially, in C++/CLI.