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Jan 28, 2023 at 20:36
zsh is generally wonderful, and it's sufficiently like bash/POSIX sh that it works. However, it uses 1-indexed arrays, whereas bash uses 0-indexed arrays. This totally caught me out.

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May 13, 2018 at 20:46
Let Over Lambda, a remarkable book on Common Lisp macros, has a cute demonstration of how to get lisp-1 semantics using macros. It does make me think about defaults though. I can create a 1-indexed array in JS, Perl or Python, but I wouldn't in practice.