From C to C++: The Evolution of Function Pointers and Why It Matters

Kirubakaran
2 min readJun 21, 2024

If there is one feature which was ahead of time when it was released “function pointers” in C lang. I don’t need to illustrate with examples/use cases where its used. You can see all over the files in C code.

However, as like anything, it got evolved and C++ took the better part of function pointers into some standard library calls.

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Kirubakaran

Software Engineer expertise on C, C++, Golang, Python, Docker, Kubernetes.