> > The pebble in the Ruby shoe is the counter-intuitive use of indexing of > > elements of arrays, strings, etc., from 0 to n-1 instead of the more > > natural 1 to n > > But since Ruby lets you reach right in and override everything, couldn't > you just change this in your own programs if you don't like it? Hmm, would probably break the standard library. But you could inherit from Array. Aur