I tried learning Borland Turbo C++ in the early 90's on my 286. I had the SAMS book "Learn Turbo C++ in 24 Hours". 15 year old me dutifully worked through it until I got to Pointers. 20 years later, a dev I worked with: "Oh, pointers are just a reference to a memory address". GAH.
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