Well, in C you have function calls, so you can still do reification on that, turn it in to a value (ie a record that holds the parameters and the pointer of the

Well, in C you have function calls, so you can still do reification on that, turn it in to a value (ie a record that holds the parameters and the pointer of the function) and fiddle with it. Some examples: - you can send it to another machine turning it into RPC, and you can encrypt (some of) the parameters because of this - you can add save the program state before you execute it for checkpointing purposes - you can log the parameters for tracing - ...