Comment Pascal vs. C (Score 1) 337
The first language with pointers and structures that I learned was Pascal, back in 1984. To dereference a pointer and access a structure it's:
pointer^.member
My teacher pronounced that as "pointer up dot member".
To this day when reading C/C++ code I (internally) say that for
pointer->member
I don't know what I'd say out loud today if I had to talk about it. I don't work in C/C++ much.