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Discussion on: What’s a concept you understand now, but took you forever to grasp?

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Thomas Landin

In my opinion there are two main issues: C uses fucking awful syntax for pointers which is always a stumbling block when trying to learn something.

The second is that most explanations only tell you what pointers are, not what they're used/useful for.

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Jon Champaigne

The, "used/useful for", bit being particularly key there.