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matheusmoreira on Aug 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jonathan Blow on Societal Collapse (2019)

> I recall a tangent on programmers being "afraid of pointers"

I've seen that too... It's pretty funny because in so many modern languages every reference is just a pointer we can't do arithmetic with.

kelnos on Aug 28, 2022 [–]

I think when people say they are "afraid of pointers", they really mean they're afraid of manipulating pointers... that is, as you say, doing pointer math.

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