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jerf on Nov 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I love everything you hate about Java

void* is the zombo.com of pointers. It can do anything. The fact that it can do absolutely, utterly anything is precisely why it is useless.

lurker14 on Nov 3, 2012 [–]

Useless? The software running the computer you are typing on is full of void*.

jerf on Nov 4, 2012 | [–]

All the pointers are void *; and yet, none of them are.

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