Most languages do. Java will always initialise a non-initialised value to NULL for instance (EDIT or 0 or false for primitives). It's simply a reality of how c

Most languages do. Java will always initialise a non-initialised value to NULL for instance (EDIT or 0 or false for primitives). It's simply a reality of how computers operate that when you allocate a piece of memory (a variable) it will have something in it that you'll need to clear or initialise. In this respect, NULL is doing you a favour.