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Does Wikipedia help, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming) ?

I can remember struggling to really learn pointers in C, the key for me was this bit of samizdat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t...

So one obvious solution is to annotate a body of real code ... but in general you're suffering from trying to learn a moving target, and good documentation tends to trail....

That Version 6 UNIX(TM) was updated/reimplemented as Xv6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv6 ... maybe someone should do a pedagogical Rust version??? Maybe x86_64 and/or ARM?



Yeah, I think the ever-changing nature of Rust was an obstacle, for sure, which is one of the reasons I'm so excited for Rust 1.0. :)




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