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> You must null check a lot of things in C, especially since there is no graceful error handling (try/catch blocks)... C certainly allows things to be null (or garbage) values.

You are correct that adding C as an example language was wrong. C++ on the other hand still stands.

> I'm not sure what you are saying here -- the very notion of pointers do not exist in Java

Java references are just C pointers without pointer arithmetic.