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There are a lot of eccentricities to complain about in VB, but somehow you have managed to only call out the features that were actually really common in a lot of other languages.

What about 1-based indexing and On Error Resume Next?

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1-based indexing is pretty common among technical programming languages (R, Matlab, Julia, etc.) Not that VB is typically used for this, but people who think 0-based is universal have pretty much only been exposed to C and languages that copy its conventions.

It's 0 based by default, afaik, but you have the choice to make the lowest index whatever you want.

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