I can C++ clearly now…

26Nov06

I was working on my thesis program which forces me to resort back to C++ for speed reason. Before that, i did it in python. It’s done. It’s running. It’s correct. It dissapoint. The C++ alternative gains light. Alas, C++ (nor C) never been my favorit.

My problem in using C or C++ is, being practically native of Java (the programming language, as well as the island), I have never fully understand how to harness the power of pointers. Those asterisks (*) and ampersands (&) haunts me! Can never fully figure out why (fundamentally speaking) they are there. Books says lots of things : ‘pointers’, ‘pass-by reference’, ‘pointer arithmetics’.

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