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Tell that to the thousands of comp sci students who drop out every year because they don't like programming in C!
by phist_mcgee 6mo ago
Tell that to the thousands of comp sci students who drop out every year because they don't like programming in C!
- t-3 6mo agoI used to think I was incapable of learning "real" programming because I didn't get C. When I later read a book on programming in assembly, I realized that everything that had felt so complex was actually not so difficult. C pointer syntax is weird and doesn't parse naturally for many people, especially programming novices who might not yet have a solid grasp on what/how/why they're doing anything.
- neutronicus 6mo agoRight, but it's hard to tell how much confusion is caused by C syntax vs the idea of a memory address. In particular I think people are very confused by declaring pointers and the overloaded meaning of the dereference operator.