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- From: reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland)
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- Subject: Re: Why should POINTERS be so damn hard to understand ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.012406.3698@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 01:24:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.183054.14146@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Anthony Wallis) writes:
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- >How can you understand C without understand what C is a convenience
- >replacement for ?
-
- True. If you think of C as a preprocessor for the PDP-11 assembler, it
- makes a lot more sense.
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- (I hope someone will flatter me by using this as a .sig quote...)
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