I think you can say something similar about programming languages that don't have automatic memory assignment. It can be perfectly valid to have a pointer rese

I think you can say something similar about programming languages that don't have automatic memory assignment. It can be perfectly valid to have a pointer reserved in memory, without having given it a value to point to yet. I see why this isn't much of an issue in 2015, but it was. I don't think NULL is a problem at all really, but it sure isn't fun in languages like C# where you can have nullable types, but I think that's a problem with C# and not the concept of NULL.