As I understand it, there were too many people graduating in CS not understanding pointers, and being thoroughly deficient in their understanding of pointer syntax. Since CS240 is the only class where the curriculum lends itself to being able to force that type of experience on people, they did it there.
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Well, from that perspective, cs240 was a very successful course. I never had problems with pointers in other languages (like C) before. They were actually a very convenient way of doing things _if_ you knew what you were doing. Ever since that class, I've avoided pointers in C++ like the plague.
Come to think of it, it has made me never want to use C++ for anything ever again. If it is low-level, I will just use C and if it is higher-level/object oriented, I'll just use something like C# or Java. And for those other jobs, there's always Perl. Oh, those nightmares about C++ memory leaks! :)
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-- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University - 84602
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