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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 18:14, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> but aren't
> they generally reviled among the progrmaming populace as the most
> complex and error-prone part of learning to program?

And now you know why people struggle with git; as I said in a previous email:

    http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124022418313288&w=2

    I think that the human brain struggles with indirection.
    Consider that so many programmers have a hard time
    understanding pointers; no wonderso many people
    find git's underlying concepts boggling.

Of course, the difference here is that we're not asking people to do
memory management; we have garbage collection.