I took that BASIC-to-asm-to-C route (albeit 6502) and it absolutely made pointers totally make sense. I hear about people having struggles with pointers in C an

I took that BASIC-to-asm-to-C route (albeit 6502) and it absolutely made pointers totally make sense. I hear about people having struggles with pointers in C and I know that, almost certainly, they have no assembler experience.