C'mon, guys! (Really, pointer pedagogy)

Praveen Kumar phaedrus at eneevax.UUCP
Sat Jun 21 00:02:52 AEST 1986


I believe that a lot of the notation in C is derived from PDP assembly
language.  I think (it has been long time since I mucked around with
PDPs) that the increment, "++", and the dereferencing, "*" operators are
straight out of PDP assembly.  That is, they work the same way in
PDP assembly. 

pk
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