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		chaoticmass on Oct 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should you learn C to “learn how the computer work... Learning C really helped demystify a lot of what used to seem like magic that higher level languages do, like memory management for starters.

pjmlp on Oct 2, 2018 [–]

You mean like this?

    var
      ptr : pointer to integer;

    begin
      New(ptr);
      ptr^ = 23;
      Dispose(ptr)
    end;

chaoticmass on Oct 5, 2018 | [–]

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