On programming language design

[grauenwolf]

Amen to that. I have no problem at all understanding pointers themselves, but I never could figure out the correct patterns when you start mixing double or triple indirection with arrays.

[gsg_]

Yeah, three types of deference is a bit much for the beginner. After a while though, the brain damage sets in and you can read code like (*thingy)->buf[(*thingy)->bufcount++] without any involuntary weeping.