On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:02:39 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote:
On the other hand, I don't think anyone should write C professionally
until they've used asm in anger (any asm, it doesn't matter which).

Probably a good point... I've done my share of assembly language
programming and it was before learning 'C'... Maybe that's why
pointers in 'C' never really bothered me... It's good to know how the
code and data are going to be laid out in memory...