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The article explains why closures are a poor man's objects. Be sure to read the comments to see why objects are a poor man's closures.

The comments do in fact contain more interesting insights than the article itself. Good discussion.

Both are a poor mans structs with name mangling!

But really, those are all just fancy names for 'void*' for people who can't remember two things at once.

A pointer itself is not a composite data type. It can't remember two things at once.

void* is the zombo.com of pointers. It can do anything. The fact that it can do absolutely, utterly anything is precisely why it is useless.

Useless? The software running the computer you are typing on is full of void*.

All the pointers are void *; and yet, none of them are.