"pointerless" meaning in English

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          "text": "We will see, however, that the pointerless techniques are seldom satisfactory. Implementations of trees tend to be more complex than those of ordered lists.",
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          "text": "The list representation is a pointerless representation that facilitates sequential access but is inefficient for random access to specific image elements.",
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          "text": "But we can't use function pointers as we would in C++, and not just for the ideological reason that it doesn't enter into the spirit of the brave new pointerless world of the CLR.",
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