Pointers are strictly "more powerful" than references; anything you can do with references you can do with pointers, but not vice versa. I imagine that's why there are no references in C -- it's a deliberately austere and powerful language.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/02/17/references-are-not-addresses.aspx
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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