I was a C64 kid. Basic had peek/poke to read/write memory addresses directly. I still remember 53280 and 53281 as bytes to flip to change screen colors. So it c

I was a C64 kid. Basic had peek/poke to read/write memory addresses directly. I still remember 53280 and 53281 as bytes to flip to change screen colors. So it came to me naturally when I saw assembler and Pascal pointers later on. It just depends on how you grew up.