Home Git Tech Blog Photos Categories Archive Hell Oh World! Code, hacks and rants by siddhesh on 2012-06-10T10:01:45+05:30 Tweet c gcc programming .. title: Higher order functions in C? .. slug: higher-order-functions-in-c .. date: 2012-06-10T10:01:45+05:30 .. tags: c, gcc, programming .. link: http://journal.siddhesh.in/posts/higher-order-functions-in-c.html .. description: .. type: text The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course has a class on higher order functions , which is the ability of a function to accept a function and/or returns another function that uses the input function. The C programming language has very limit capability to do this and it is limited to being able to accept function pointers or return function pointers. I wanted to explore this limitation further to figure out exactly how far I can stretch this, so I wrote a sm...