Ethan BlackIf function pointers weren't a thing at the #lowLevel , I wonder how much less I'd like programming. I'd guess it would be less interesting. How would it affect the implementation of OOP #programmingLanguage s?
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They're quite necessary in machine code, unless you raise the semantic level of the ISA dramatically, e.g., the ill-fated Intel iAPX 432, which had object capabilities, but no traditional pointers at all (roughly similar semantic level to the JVM).