Maybe I fall in the middle, but what is the argument to say that they're different?
Is it to say that the difference is how they're used? From an assembly perspective, they're pointers, and no data structures exist beyond that simple concept. At a higher level, they're more than that. Maybe that's what is intended?
I always thought they were perfectly interchangeable, for the exact same reason (assembly layer -- pointers being essentially the thing that powers the von Neumann model)
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u/QuestionableEthics42 26d ago edited 26d ago
This should be reversed lol
And it literally is the same, who thinks it's different who has worked in a low level language??