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Originally Posted by Ether
Since your post is linked to mine I'll assume that was the intended context, since no other context was given.
I'll try to be clearer:
My post had nothing to do with "arguing which view is the best one". It was simply pointing out that there are domains in which a knowledge of how your programming language stores matrix elements is important.
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It's no problem, I did not intend for my post to be linked to yours at all.
I intended to address the topic in general.
However to go back to your point, if you consider the computers 'view' of the data you are absolutely correct.
Just as it wouldn't make sense to fight little-endian / big-endian it doesn't make any sense to fight the way your language works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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Danny Cohen's "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" published in 1980[7] ends with: "Swift's point is that the difference between breaking the egg at the little-end and breaking it at the big-end is trivial. Therefore, he suggests, that everyone does it in his own preferred way. We agree that the difference between sending eggs with the little- or the big-end first is trivial, but we insist that everyone must do it in the same way, to avoid anarchy. Since the difference is trivial we may choose either way, but a decision must be made."
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