Actually... Some of us used that on purpose to write directly to memory.
And then came heap and stack and garbage collection.
And Firefox, with it's massive memory leak.
/johnny
As did I, using both C and IBM 360 System assembly language. Would occasionally write "self modifying code" to solve issues, but it could be a real pain dealing with memory segments on the Intel architecture. It's really vague to me now... It's been nearly 25 years since I worked as a programmer.
Mark