Comment by dingdingdang
4 days ago
The legendary status is also enhanced by the absolute nightmare that pointers enable if used with indiscretion or high level proficiency - a triple pointer is a good example for me but there's many many more, and arguably worse, examples out there.
My favorite is pointers to functions passed as args for things like supplying a comparator. With more opaque void* args for customizing things even further.