Why do Lua arrays(tables) start at 1 instead of 0?

Question

I don\'t understand the rationale behind the decision of this part of Lua. Why does indexing start at 1? I have read (as many others did) this great paper. It seems to me a

Answer 1

It makes sense to everyone, that if

table = {}

table is empty. So, when

table == {something}

The table contains something so what it contains is index 1 in table, if you know what I mean.

What I meant is that table[0] exists, and its table = {}, which is empty, now a programmer won't call a empty table, it sets them, and then fills it, it will be useless to find an empty table every time you want to call it, so it's simpler to just create an empty table.

My English won't get better and that's my best grammar. If you don't like it, you're free to not keep reading it, but giving -rep for someone trying to help makes people not want to help at all, especially for something like grammar. I'm a man of numbers and vars, not grammar. Sorry.