Does it bother anyone else that $# in shell scripts and argc in C programs differ by one?

[jef@mastodon.social]

Does it bother anyone else that $# in shell scripts and argc in C programs differ by one? That has always bothered me.

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@jef If you think about it wrong, it's actually off by two: $# is bash's argc minus 2.

[pelle@veganism.social]

@barubary @jef
what are the contents of those 3 args for the C program then? ( or are there just 2, and C is not using zero-indexing in this particular place?)