C'mon, guys!

[Mark Campbell]

> Guy Harris writes:
> >...sometimes I think pointers should be *subtracted* from C, since people seem
> >to get very confused about them...
> > [...]
> [...] 
> It's not 'C', I've had the same basic problems with students when
> teaching IBM assembler, PL/I and Pascal.
> [...]
> Somewhere in that mess they have to retrain themselves to carefully
> distinguish between these two notions and not confuse a 'box' with
> it's 'contents', an address with a value contained therein, to remember
> two things for one object.
> [...] 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Nicklaus Wirth, in "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", makes the observation
that the "goto" control structure and the pointer are analagous constructs.  It's
interesting reading.
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