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by xigoi 19 days ago
> I will still curse the C designers to my dying day for picking * as the prefix operator for dereference pointer, when the more logical @ character was SITTING RIGHT THERE!

And what’s worse, many other languages copied this decision without understanding why it was made and why it’s completely nonsensical for modern languages.

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Objective-C for the win!!

(They use @ for marking keywords)