I was just starting to get the hang of single pointers (pointers to pointers were still kicking my butt) when I got laid off from that job.

A good gardener will use the right tool for the job.


>Craig, I wrote a ton of C/C++ code in the 1990's (not much after that). And that included pointers. Sure, they were difficult....I spent many nights hand-writing notes on a piece of paper, and/or watching memory address values in either CodeView or Turbo Debugger. But it was a valuable exercise for me at the time and I felt it made me stronger with the tool at the time. So once could say it was a form of "gardening" at the time :)
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>You're right, with C#, you don't have to deal with them.
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>Different topic but same message - I'd prefer not to have to write bloody dynamic SQL and (gasp) I'd prefer never to use cursors in SQL Server. But the other day I had a problem at work that I just could not effectively solve without a cursor. Not the solution I wanted, but certain better than if I didn't know how to use them. So sometimes that gardener really needs to get his/her hands/knees really really dirty :)