Pointers in Java

Question

C++ supports pointers whereas Java does not. But when many programmers questioned how you can work without pointers, the promoters began saying \"Restricted pointers.” So we

Answer 1

Let me be acid: Java don't have pointers because it's designers decided to call them differently. In fact they moved everything on the heap so that everything is managed by a pointer, then, since no direct reference existed anymore, canceled the "." and renamed "->" as "."