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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 1385 days ago
I'd go one further.

If you struggle with pointers and direct memory manipulation in C, you didn't understand Java nearly as well as you thought you did.

There's a distinction between reference and pointer in C++, but in Java they're basically the same thing with roughly the same semantics, up to and including the ability to be null.