… so as long as you do The Right Thing and forget how you would do it in C, you should be able to get a good grip on this. - Erik Naggum

Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.