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Re:Why I Chose to Learn C by coldtea on Friday March 29, 2013 @05:39PM (#5463172)
>I never really got why people found pointers to be complicated. I suck at writing C code, but pointers are something I understood pretty easily. It in the name really, it's something that points to (the location of) something else.

That's the easy part. Not many people (if any) struggle to understand that. It's all the consequences of that, and they way it interplays with various C features, that get people confused.

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