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Pascal had pointers? They could be `nil` too https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse15.html

Parodper 53 days ago [–]

The thread talked about sum types, which apparently appeared on ALGOL; although I don't know how much memory did an ALGOL compiler need.

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