#C to Pascal
Good question: why _ARE_ they so enamored of structures, pointers, and
malloc. Granted, they are wonderful features and have their uses. But
there's no law that says that you _HAVE_ to use chained pointers as the
solution to every problem. Sometimes a good ol' static array works just as
well, maybe better.
Reminds me of a fellow who used to work for me. He generated the most
complex, and I'm sure to him, elegant, assembler code I've ever seen. Most
of it never worked. Once I told him, "You know, just because the CPU has a
lot of different instructions, there's no law that says that you HAVE to
use them at least once in each program."
Jack