> since the availability of pointers to objects is rather fundamental for all OO "specific languages". I don't see how that is the case. For example some imple

> since the availability of pointers to objects is rather fundamental for all OO "specific languages". I don't see how that is the case. For example some implementations of Smalltalk used object tables, so there were no "pointers to objects", just numerical object IDs. The physical interpretation of such IDs could get very arbitrary.