Three years ago, when I found out about Julia (and quickly fell in love with the language), I not happy at all about the 1-based indices and column-major storage, and at the time, a lot of the responses I got were along the lines of "Julia is for mathematicians, and 1-based indexing and column major are just fine for us". Now, Julia is able to have indices with any base that you want, and can handle row-major storage as well (thanks to Tim Holy's great work). Why is anybody concerned about this anymore? Julia can do whatever you want, you shouldn't be stuck with languages that can ONLY do 0-based indexing.
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