The issue in the post and the question about & got me thinking. With the arrival of more powerful hardware which made possible the existence of Java-like languages where the internals of the CPU architecture are deeply hidden, we've gained something but I think we've lost something as well. It is good for the programmer to be close to the hardware enough to feel some of the stress that his code puts on it. C++ is a good language to learn even if you never program in it for a job.
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