{"id":10510,"date":"2022-05-05T12:16:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:16:43","slug":"pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10510","title":{"rendered":"Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest things to learn in C\u2014indeed, many say it\u2019s the acid test for a good C programmer\u2014is pointers. Here\u2019s an amusing cartoon (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/n0v0id\">Karl Voit<\/a>) that explains it as well as any other explanation I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pointers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TjfX5K54H7\">pic.twitter.com\/TjfX5K54H7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joel Eriksson (@OwariDa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OwariDa\/status\/1521461838327734273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, it\u2019s funny and made me laugh. Educational and funny: what\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest things to learn in C\u2014indeed, many say it\u2019s the acid test for a good C programmer\u2014is pointers. Here\u2019s an amusing cartoon (via Karl Voit) that explains it as well as any other explanation I\u2019ve seen. Pointers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}