[Gintoki Ameto]

Due to my country education system, I had used Pascal for programming all the time. After changing to other language, everything work like a charm but one exception (it's been following me from years):
The array in Python, C, Java,... always start its index at 0.
In Pascal, you can design where the index should start, and in many case, I used to declare it at 1.
For example: the problem require finding the shortest path from City[1->5], the array is prototype as City[1..n] = [1,2,3,4,5]. In this case, it became pretty easy to imply the algorithm because the value i is also the value of City[i] (0<i<6).
In other language, since index of array start at 0, I must declare the array City[0->5] = [0,1,2,3,4,5] and abandon City[0] through all the program, City[0] became garbage and cost system memory.
Another way is prototype City[0->4] = [1,2,3,4,5]. This won't cost any garbage memory, but it is more difficult to imply the algorithm since City[i] = i+1.
The question is, which way is better to use? Which way will you choose? Is there any other way to solve this problem?