At What point should you understand pointers?

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Published on 2010-05-06T22:56:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 23:08 UTC
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I asked a question like this in an interview for a entry level programmer:

var instance1 = new myObject{Value = "hello"}
var instance2 = instance1;

instance1.Value = "bye";

Console.WriteLine(instance1.Value);
Console.WriteLine(instance2.Value);

The applicant responded with "hello", "bye" as the output.

Some of my co-workers said that pointers are not that important anymore or that this question is not a real judge of ability.

Are they right?

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