> There is no evidence that these are less maintainable (in general) because of language choices. I have an example. The Squid proxy code used calling via func

> There is no evidence that these are less maintainable (in general) because of language choices. I have an example. The Squid proxy code used calling via function pointers everywhere as DIY polymorphism. That made it quite difficult for me (ymmv) to follow the code. Things like ctags would have worked if they'd used "real" C++ polymorphism. IMHO. YMMV.