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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 07:55:39 -0400
Subject: Re: Python handles globals badly.
From: Vladimir Ignatov <kmisoft@gmail.com>
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>> I had some experience programming in Lua and I'd say - that language
>> is bad example to follow.
>> Indexes start with 1  (I am not kidding)
>
> What is so bad about that?

It's different from the rest 99.9% of languages for no particular reason.

( => perfect example of "design smell" => not a good example to follow)


Vladimir

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