I can't speak for laumars, but I would suggest there is a difference. Functions within languages generally work at a higher level of abstraction, even in C. If

I can't speak for laumars, but I would suggest there is a difference. Functions within languages generally work at a higher level of abstraction, even in C. If you wanted a grep like function for filtering an array of strings in your programming language of choice, would you define it to take a single string and predicate arguments, that is then split up on an arbitrary character, filtered, then joined back together again to return a single string? Or would you use a general purpose filter() function that takes an array and a predicate (function pointer/lambda/block/whatever) and returns a new array?