As a person who's worked with C programmers trying to be C++ programmers a couple times, the following gave me a hearty laugh: > Pointers are broken. C++ intro

As a person who's worked with C programmers trying to be C++ programmers a couple times, the following gave me a hearty laugh: > Pointers are broken. C++ introduces "references", a kind of non-nullable pointer which doesn't look like a pointer, makes a syntactic mess of what & means, and is used inconsistently wherever one could simply always use a pointer. I've heard argued "But but, its a Amp, it shouldn't mean that!"