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I ordered it by inter-library loan in 1991 to rural Oregon. I had recently learned 6502 assembly language, so pointers seemed "obvious". A few years later in CS
by jeffrallen 5y ago
I ordered it by inter-library loan in 1991 to rural Oregon. I had recently learned 6502 assembly language, so pointers seemed "obvious". A few years later in CS101 I had such instinctive feel for them I could hardly explain them to my fellow students.
Thank you K&R.
- bear8642 5y ago> so pointers seemed "obvious" Indeed - having come from low level route, never really understood why people get so confused with them
- dhosek 5y agoI can remember writing a large Pascal program in the 80s and really wishing I had function pointers available so I could pass in a reference to a function. I look back on that as an autodidact programmer and realize that I had some vague instinctual notion of stuff that would become commonplace as OO and functional paradigms took over.