CHAPTER 9

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Pointers and Unsafe Code

It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase man’s blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

—Albert Einstein

Since its inception, the use of pointers has been the best and worst of C and ultimately C++ (though many would argue that ...

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