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[–] thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure about here but is was a hot take on reddit:
Pointers are not that hard and really useful

[–] jvisick@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine anyone but a total novice disagreeing with this.

I can understand finding pointers hard at first, but I can absolutely not understand trying to argue that they aren’t useful.

[–] thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There were a lot of “pointer hard” memes back r/programmerhumor. Probably a lot of beginner's over there.

I guess I cheated by already having an understanding of how the computer works before starting C.