[mrathi12]

This is such a common fallacy. C exposes lower-level memory management, but to then say "oh now you have pointers you can implement anything" is a push.

If you need to implement virtual tables and function pointers, you'd use C++ - there's no need to reinvent the wheel.

Besides software engineering is about focusing on the intrinsic complexity, and using languages and tools to mitigate the incidental complexity.