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In systems languages that predated C like NEWP and PL/I variants, in Object Pascal, Modula-2, Mesa, BASIC, Ada.

The different is that some of them have the knowledge between type safe pointers, i.e. can only be created by taking adresses of existing variables, and unsafe pointers, i.e. can be created out thin air like in C.



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