Editing Pointer (computer programming) (section)

==History==
In 1955, Soviet Ukrainian computer scientist [[Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist)|Kateryna Yushchenko]] created the [[Address (programming language)|Address programming language]] that made possible indirect addressing and addresses of the highest rank – analogous to pointers. This language was widely used on the Soviet Union computers. However, it was unknown outside the Soviet Union and usually [[Harold Lawson]] is credited with the invention, in 1964, of the pointer.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil/page/204 204] |quote=Harold Lawson pointer. |title=Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |access-date=2018-04-13 |isbn=9781573565219 |last1=Reilly |first1=Edwin D. |year=2003}}</ref> In 2000, Lawson was presented the Computer Pioneer Award by the [[IEEE]] "[f]or inventing the pointer variable and introducing this concept into PL/I, thus providing for the first time, the capability to flexibly treat linked lists in a general-purpose high-level language".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewPastRecipients.action?id=13 |title=IEEE Computer Society awards list |publisher=Awards.computer.org |access-date=2018-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322221848/http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewPastRecipients.action?id=13 |archive-date=2011-03-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His seminal paper on the concepts appeared in the June 1967 issue of CACM entitled: PL/I List Processing. According to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], the '''word''' ''pointer'' first appeared in print as a ''stack pointer'' in a technical memorandum by the [[System Development Corporation]].