Oracle's stupid column indexes

Oracle has really dumb column indexes. Instead of starting with 0 like the rest of the computer science world, they chose to go with 1 as the first. Thus, even the most seasoned programmer will often fall for this rookie mistake because programmers know that in CS 0 is first. Consequently, you'll get a ORA-17003: Invalid column index error and usually it's pretty easy to spot. None the less this is extremely annoying. I wish Oracle would fix it.