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Back when I was a kid and was learning C, I used to wonder why people considered pointers hard.
My usage of pointers was like:
I didn't know stuff like
malloc
and never felt the need in any of the program logic for the little thingies I made.Pointers are not hard. Memory management makes it hard.
C makes them unnecessarily confusing in my opinion. In Forth they're as simple as can be compared to C.