ok i just downloaded lua

I immediately started working on implementing my infinite compression algorithm but ran into some problems. This is what I have so far

a = {1,2,3}
print(a[0]);

When I try to run this it prints nil? WTF???

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Even with all its flaws, it's still a better language than Python. The latter succeeds more for the usefulness of its standard library than by any virtue of the language itself.