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Pointerless vs Painterless - What's the difference?

pointerless | painterless |

As adjectives the difference between pointerless and painterless

is that pointerless is without the use of pointers while painterless is without a painter (artist working with paint).

pointerless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (computing, programming) Without the use of pointers.
  • * 1989 , Allen Kent, James G Williams, Rosalind Kent, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 4
    • We will see, however, that the pointerless techniques are seldom satisfactory. Implementations of trees tend to be more complex than those of ordered lists.
  • * 1992 , Giorgio Gambosi, Michel O Scholl, Hans-Werner Six, Geographic database management systems: workshop proceedings, Capri, Italy
    • The list representation is a pointerless representation that facilitates sequential access but is inefficient for random access to specific image elements.
  • * 2003 , Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams, .NET Windows forms in a nutshell (page 18)
    • But we can't use function pointers as we would in C++, and not just for the ideological reason that it doesn't enter into the spirit of the brave new pointerless world of the CLR.

    painterless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a painter (artist working with paint).
  • * 1984 , Michael Edwards, Towards a Christian poetics
    • In Eden one can imagine no need for painting, and one glimpses its painterless , visually sufficient world in the blank canvas...
  • * 1994 , Bruce Altshuler, The avant-garde in exhibition: new art in the 20th century
    • It was painterless painting, done by a remote-controlled model car rigged with a can of quick-drying paint.