Screw you pointers...

Screw you *pointers

Just in case you want to screw the actual value

I wish Java supported pointers

Haven't really messed around with C or C++. What's the deal with pointers?

Scanning through the rants, I read that as "screw you ponies"...

Great power comes with great responsibility.

@calmyourtities It does. That's why you see all those NullPointerExceptions

@t4ils Tl;dr pointers are memory addresses letting you interact directly with the computer's memory. They can also be a bitch sometimes

@Tytanium because it's much more than just a link. It is literally a physical place in memory which opens up a suite of interesting things you can do, from memory crawlers to ultra generic libraries. Plus it lets you directly access the memory location of a function, meaning you can store it in a database and use the function later (useful in generic libraries)