On 5/23/2011 11:30 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Yes and no. To those that "get it", it is simple and straightforward. Experience shows that very few people actually "get it". Syntax is a factor but not the only one. The very nature of the concept stumps some people.
I suspect that those people who never get it are people who fundamentally do not know how a von neuman architecture computer works. I came to C from writing embedded systems in assembler language, and C was immediately obvious to me.
