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Printerless vs Pointerless - What's the difference?

printerless | pointerless |

As adjectives the difference between printerless and pointerless

is that printerless is without a printer while pointerless is without the use of pointers.

printerless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a printer.

    • 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.