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Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by maxxxxx on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:17PM (#20171042)
"The K&R book is worth a read if anyone missed it. It's beautifully written."

Agreed. I read the whole thing in a weekend and had a pretty good idea about pointers and stuff afterwards. I feel a lot of people have trouble with pointers didn't read it.

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Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by stevekemp on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:33AM (#20172064)
My programming journey went roughly:

* ZX Spectrum BASIC

* Assembly language (Z80)

* FORTH

* C

* ..

Learning C when I already knew assembly language made it obvious what pointers were. I suspect a programmer these days might start with javascript then jump to C and be a little mystified.

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