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Fiddling with [Pointer]s is a very error prone task. Therefor, [Pointer] arithmetic is nowadays frowned upon unless you are doing low level systems programming.
[Pointer]s also break type safety. Many ProgrammingLanguages attempt to alleviate this by requiring you to use a different type of [Pointer] for each kind of DataType you want to point to.
-Nowadays, if you aren't writing a kernel or hardware driver, you should be using a ProgrammingLanguage that has a GarbageCollector
and frees you from the arduous task of keeping track of your memory.
+Nowadays, if you aren't writing a kernel or hardware driver, you should be using a ProgrammingLanguage that has GarbageCollection
and frees you from the arduous task of keeping track of your memory.
