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Pointers aren't special, and memory is not the only resource that requires managing.

• ncmncm 5y ago
  Pointers are special. They have implicit conversions, and a wide variety of pre-defined operations, typically only a few of which are correct for any particular use. Managing any resource is trivial with destructors. If you need to manage a resource, a pointer is a poor way to do it. In C, you have a poverty of choices, but people are anyway used to being careful around pointers.