> Oddly I find pointers intuitive and easy in Pascal and assembler

Sure, sixy seven lines of assembly handily beats arcane crap like:

   obj->ops.tbl[BLAH]->func(obj, &obj->x, arg);

Want to take an integer in a register, then add another register's integer multiplied by 8 or 4, and then a fixed offset?

Just use LEA (load effective address) and don't comment anything.

Let the reader figure out that no pointers are involved.