[virgilp]

I'd like to see that ample evidence. On the contrary, I know even fairly experienced developers who get burned with memory issues in C - and I have never ever heard of even the most junior developer to have any problem with double frees in Java :)

Plus..... even if you could do that, WHY? C is a simple language, close to the "metal". If you want a language that has every-feature-and-their-mother, and can be close to the metal when needed, and can be used to blow both your feet off, just use C++.

Adding functional closures to C is somewhat akin to adding "asm" and "volatile" in Haskell.... even if you could do it, why would you? It just breaks the very essence of the language.