> I will still curse the C designers to my dying day for picking * as the prefix operator for dereference pointer, when the more logical @ character was SITTING

> I will still curse the C designers to my dying day for picking * as the prefix operator for dereference pointer, when the more logical @ character was SITTING RIGHT THERE! And what’s worse, many other languages copied this decision without understanding why it was made and why it’s completely nonsensical for modern languages.