Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Pointers are the most useful thing in C and you cannot get around 
> them in C++ if you want to keep fast performance. 

  In C++ there's less need to use pointers everywhere. For instance, often
a reference is better than a pointer (a reference is more secure and
easier to use syntax-wise).
  And if you are going to use dynamically allocated memory, abstracting
the pointer is a good idea anyways. For instance most (if not all)
STL data containers are classes which contain just one member
variable: A pointer. Which means that these data containers are
basically a pointer. However, they are 100 times more secure than
using a pointer directly, 100 times easier to use and in no way less
efficient.
  Using 'new' outside an abstract type is usually a bad idea. Honestly.

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