I guess I find it ironic then, that one of the most common programming errors, is of the "off-by-one" variety[1]. It is in part due to differences in convention and notation in various fields[2].

This isn't common in 1-based indexing languages. Very common in 0-based indexing languages[3].

If the 0-based indexing was objectively superior, wouldn't there be fewer instances of such bugs?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering

[3] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4289...