Short answer no - programming would be just a little bit more difficult. Calculating an index can often be simplified if zero is not just a valid value but the first element in an array or character in a string or what have you.
I base this on the active experience of having worked (over the years) with 1 based index languages and (even) languages (VB Classic) where you could set the lower as well as upper bounds of an array. Zero based arrays (and such) are generally just that bit easier to work with.
Listening to the radio - that's what cars are for.
Mind (in this context) I have the misfortune to live in the UK where music radio stations seem to think that their output should be constant banal chatter from a "DJ" with just the occasional tune slung in when they run out of things to jabber about.
I am always glad when I visit the USA and can find so many music stations - ones that actually play music.
Cool idea (great demo of the Roslyn tech) but you need to be able to write "Space Invaders" for that true taste of nostalgia.
I wonder now if I should have a go at re-creating VB3 - now that was a brilliant introductory programming language/version - particularly as it could get real things done.
OK I agree, XSD was just a way for pedants to be a pain.
But, any form of structured communication that works for humans (and this is a mark-up language that is supposed to work in the human as well as machine spheres) has to include a degree of apparent redundancy that actually applies clarity - well at least avoids ambiguity.
My preference is always JSON but XML is cool when it flows and has available tools.
The whole point of having two sets of comparitors (=== and == in this instance) is that you can use the correct one for any given circumstance. Proscribing the use of one in favour of the other is just woolly thinking.
An attempt to improve the quality of technical search results by using the power of the "crowd". Looks like this is an "add on" to Google so there is no loss of "raw" search data - just hopefully, seeing the better (curated) results highlighted.
Stack Overflow is an amazingly useful programming resource - but - like most things has problems.
From my viewpoint, the main problem is the drive for "karma". You may visit an interesting question and you will often find that partial solutions (or solutions to a re-phrasing of the question [thats as kindly as I can put it])have a high score while the true and, more importantly complete, answer (probably written a few days after the original question was posed) has zero points.
There are also those who answer a factual question with an opinion - I am sure that Dante would have added another level in hell for just that sin should he have lived in the modern age.
Points are not everything but there is a tendency for the scoring system to mislead the seeker after a solution unless they are aware that all factual answers have value.
The problem is that SO puts so much weight on points...I had to spend about two months just answering questions in order to have the rights to get any help, before I found out that I just need to say something popular without any real content to get all the points I need.
