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Bela: It's kind of funny, the way you look at C vs. assembler. I see it the
other way: when I was learning C, and I didn't understand the way something
worked, I mentally translated it to assembler, as if C was a funny macro
language. Then all the *(*foo)()s made sense.
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Then again, I didn't do much 8086 family assembler work until after I grokked
C, so my primary exposure to real-life-computer macro assembly languages and
architectures was the PDP-11 series, which certainly influenced C's design.
Maybe your problems are related to still thinking of things in segments. 🙂