That's fair. I taught myself to program using C, and C's conflation of pointer parameters with arrays, and its declaration syntax, confused me at first. And I a

That's fair. I taught myself to program using C, and C's conflation of pointer parameters with arrays, and its declaration syntax, confused me at first. And I also ended up with more unexplained glitches segfaults in the beginning due to arrays not being bounds checked. It might have been easier to start with something like Modula-2 in the beginning.