Are there other common “c-like” or non “c-like” languages with non zero index array position? [closed]

Answer 1

A pretty big list of languages is on Wikipedia under Comparison of Programming Languages (array) under "Array system cross-reference list" table (Default base index column)

This has a good discussion of 1- vs. 0- indexed and subscriptions in general

To quote from the blog:

EWD831 by E.W. Dijkstra, 1982.

When dealing with a sequence of length N, the elements of which we wish to distinguish by subscript, the next vexing question is what subscript value to assign to its starting element. Adhering to convention a) yields, when starting with subscript 1, the subscript range 1 ≤ i < N+1; starting with 0, however, gives the nicer range 0 ≤ i < N. So let us let our ordinals start at zero: an element's ordinal (subscript) equals the number of elements preceding it in the sequence. And the moral of the story is that we had better regard —after all those centuries!— zero as a most natural number.

Remark:: Many programming languages have been designed without due attention to this detail. In FORTRAN subscripts always start at 1; in ALGOL 60 and in PASCAL, convention c) has been adopted; the more recent SASL has fallen back on the FORTRAN convention: a sequence in SASL is at the same time a function on the positive integers. Pity! (End of Remark.)

Answer 2

informix, besides other languages already mentioned.

Answer 3

RPG, including modern RPGLE

Answer 4

ColdFusion - even though it is Java under the hood

Answer 5

Found one - Lua (programming language)

Check Arrays section which says -

"Lua arrays are 1-based: the first index is 1 rather than 0 as it is for many other programming languages (though an explicit index of 0 is allowed)"

Answer 6

You can do it in Perl

$[ = 1;  # set the base array index to 1

You can also make it start with 42 if you feel like that. This also affects string indexes.

Actually using this feature is highly discouraged.