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The first language I learned was QBasic, so when I started to learn C++, the concept of pointers was bizarre and took longer to learn than it should have, but a
by penpapersw 9y ago
The first language I learned was QBasic, so when I started to learn C++, the concept of pointers was bizarre and took longer to learn than it should have, but after it finally clicked, it gave me a special love for pointers, the simplicity of C, and low-level programming in general.
- int_19h 9y agoWhile QBasic didn't have pointer types, it did have pointers in disguise (or rather, pointers without disguise, which are just memory addresses) - VARPTR, PEEK and POKE. As I recall, PEEK'ing and POKE'ing things was actually necessary to do many important tricks in QB, especially once you started playing with CALL INTERRUPT.