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A quick intro to pointers (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

I actually think that everybody should learn a functional language like Scheme first because it teaches you to think about state explicitly. It's very easy for somebody who learned a functional language to pick up an imperative one, but it's very hard for people to go the other way around.