Agreed, in theory - in practice, I find that explaining mov r1, r2 vs mov (r1), r2 vs mov (r1)+, r2 followed by an hour of writing assembler programs to do ba

Agreed, in theory - in practice, I find that explaining mov r1, r2 vs mov (r1), r2 vs mov (r1)+, r2 followed by an hour of writing assembler programs to do basic things with null-terminated strings is usually needed to help people learning C to quickly internalize what that means. Something about * and + and - around the var name seems to become easier when they can say "oh now I see; *c++ is like (r1)+".