In JDBC, why do parameter indexes for prepared statements begin at 1 instead of 0?

Question

Everywhere else in Java, anything with an index starts at 0. Is there a reason for the change here or is this just bad design?

Answer 1

This was part of a plot by the original language designers to weed out the weak. In the original spec, arrays were numbered from -1, and lists with 1 element returned length =0.

Today, only the java Calendar API remains from this diabolical plot.