In those languages, nearly everything is a pointer, they just don't call it that, which causes unnecessary confusion when you need to understand what's really h

In those languages, nearly everything is a pointer, they just don't call it that, which causes unnecessary confusion when you need to understand what's really happening. (E.g., in Java, a String is a pointer to a string, not a string; but an int is just an int, not a pointer to an int.)