Another language trivia: for strings, Pascal (which has 1-based indexing) does actually use the character at index 0 to store the string length behind the scenes. Because of this, indices are converted into offsets directly, without having to subtract one. It’s also the reason why strings were limited to 255 characters.
If Pascal had 1-based indexing, it wouldn't be possible to store the string length at index 0. The first character in a string is always at index 1 because of this. Strings are
