No, they used to use both "pointer" and "reference" interchangeably to mean an opaque handle that you could only pass around or dereference; for things that sup

No, they used to use both "pointer" and "reference" interchangeably to mean an opaque handle that you could only pass around or dereference; for things that supported address arithmetic they used, well, "address". See for example [0] — the paper itself is from 1992, but it extensively quotes the papers from the seventies. [0] Amir M. Ben-Amram and Zvi Galil. 1992. On pointers versus addresses. J. ACM 39, 3 (July 1992), 617–648. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/146637.146666 https://doi.org/10.1145/146637.146666