Some of us learned Assembly Language programming before we hit C. Assembly Language makes a lot of use of pointers. So we're very comfortable using pointers. I

Some of us learned Assembly Language programming before we hit C. Assembly Language makes a lot of use of pointers. So we're very comfortable using pointers. I feel that we work better with C because of that. In fact, C has been called 'high level Assembly Language' by somebody in the past. C is not difficult. C++ is difficult because of its use of overloading (IMHO) and it seems quite messy. In C, the frugal language, what you see is what you get.