I think the only complicated-looking thing in C is the syntax for declaring function pointer types. If you use typedefs you end up with typedef int (*math_op

I think the only complicated-looking thing in C is the syntax for declaring function pointer types. If you use typedefs you end up with typedef int (*math_op)(int, int); math_op ops[] = { add, subtract }; int a = ops[0](3, 5); int b = ops[1](9, 2); ... maybe I've just used them too much, but I find them quite simple (except, as mentioned, setting up the initial typedefs which is a bit "odd"). One of my favourite uses of function pointers is for key-mappings, like in: https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/blob/master/config.def.h https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/blob/master/config.def.h