[junon]

Of course we do. You still need to know how pointers work to use RAII effectively, though.

[pjmlp]

Not at all, because RAII is about constructors/destructors, and not at all about pointers.

Heap allocated data is one special case of OS resources that can be managed by constructor/destructor pairs.

[junon]

What did being pedantic prove here?

[ncmncm]

The thread started with you insisting a C-level conception of pointers is essential to coding C++, which turns out to be false.

Learning C first is a very bad way to learn C++. One can pick up pointers later, and asm blocks after that.