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"The K&R book is worth a read if anyone missed it. It's beautifully written." Agreed. I read the whole thing in a weekend and had a pretty good idea about poin
by maxxxxx 7y ago
"The K&R book is worth a read if anyone missed it. It's beautifully written."
Agreed. I read the whole thing in a weekend and had a pretty good idea about pointers and stuff afterwards. I feel a lot of people have trouble with pointers didn't read it.
- stevekemp 7y agoMy programming journey went roughly: * ZX Spectrum BASIC * Assembly language (Z80) * FORTH * C * .. Learning C when I already knew assembly language made it obvious what pointers were. I suspect a programmer these days might start with javascript then jump to C and be a little mystified.