Why C Arrays Start at Zero: I Don't Know

eventually, the text loaded. the meat of the article is a link to http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ and the point of the article is that most of us know a just-so story about why C indexing is the way it is; the true story might not even be written down.

Unfortunately, I don't think the underlying story at tive.org is shedding much light on the subject. For instance, it implies a rather doubtful analogy between multiuser systems and malloc(). Its other main assertion, that the interpretation of v!i as doing zero-based indexing helped compile time rather than runtime efficiency is essentially unsupported. And I still don't understand what any of this had to do with the program for yacht handicapping.

sadly, site has already melted.