of Guns and Pointers

Pointers in a program are just as dangerous and suicidal as guns in the real life

• lots is written about their danger, e.g., in my paper

• Fortran/Java/etc. banish pointers altogether
  although Fortran does out of ignorance

• Still, not guns are killing people...
  • virtual (virtual+dynamic) data items
  • avoiding over-indulgence of random access
  • streamlined determinant

• pointer Brady bill
  • streams
  • STL iterators
  • function pointers
  • one-purpose pointer

still, you need a sharp knife to cut it. As they say, not guns are killing people, people are. I will cover only a few of these items, the rest is explained in the paper

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