[jeffrallen]

I ordered it by inter-library loan in 1991 to rural Oregon. I had recently learned 6502 assembly language, so pointers seemed "obvious". A few years later in CS101 I had such instinctive feel for them I could hardly explain them to my fellow students.

Thank you K&R.

[bear8642]

> so pointers seemed "obvious"

Indeed - having come from low level route, never really understood why people get so confused with them

[dhosek]

I can remember writing a large Pascal program in the 80s and really wishing I had function pointers available so I could pass in a reference to a function. I look back on that as an autodidact programmer and realize that I had some vague instinctual notion of stuff that would become commonplace as OO and functional paradigms took over.