Why? Seems completely correct and good.
You either have an empty range be -1 .. 0, which is ugly, or 0 .. -1, which is also ugly. Thus, start-inclusive, end-exclusive.
You either have an empty range be -1 .. 0, which is ugly, or 0 .. -1, which is also ugly. Thus, start-inclusive, end-exclusive.
This and column-major order for matrices (a vector is a column, not a row)
We can be thankful that this applied physicist in particular decided to dedicate time to think carefully about the needs of who would be his colleagues and successors, when he was pretty much inventing programming as a profession; he told of the anecdote of when he got married, and he wasn't able to write in "programmer" as his occupation in the Dutch paperwork, because it didn't exist as a job category yet.
And then, once you remove empty ranges, there's no reason to to choose a range style based on which you prefer for an empty range.