Happy New Decade (Tony Duell)

Arguing about this is about as daft as arguing about whether array indices should be zero-based or one-based. It is a fact that some languages use 0 as the index origin, others 1. It is also a fact that a century or decade starts on the year ending with the digit 1, not 0, since there never was a year 0. Possibly not logical, but nonetheless a fact. Claiming anything else is plain wrong, just as claiming that the sun rotates around the earth is wrong, even though it looks that way from the earth. And arguing about it is completely pointless. The concept may be hard to grasp for mathematically challenged persons who think that celebrating the start of a new millennium in 2000 is a good marketing move, but they are still wrong. All the problems with non-year-2000-capable software confuse the issue but the facts still stand. So happy new decade to all! /Jonas