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Re:Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] by augustk on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:53AM (#26914238)
For anyone who wants to learn about pointers I can recommend studying a language simpler than C like for instance Oberon where pointers are more restricted. Having a look at Oberon can also broaden your view even if you know pointers in C.

  https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
  http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/PIO.pdf
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Re:Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] by Koshkin on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:55AM (#26914799)
Actually, this could confuse things even more, because the C pointer and Oberon's POINTER TO have very little in common.
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Re:Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] by augustk on Sunday April 25, 2021 @09:38AM (#26932608)
When pointers are used to build dynamic data structures the differences are merely syntactical.
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