[AnimalMuppet]

I think I would say that no, they are not quite so confusing in Pascal, because they are more limited. (At least, they were in the original Pascal. I have no experience with the more modern versions.) As a result, you couldn't do some of the things that you can do in C, which made it easier to understand the uses of pointers in existing Pascal code. (On the other hand, if you were trying to get pointers to do something in Pascal, and that thing was outside the range of what you could do with pointers in Pascal, then Pascal could be very frustrating...)