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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

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166 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 04:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
1. dleeftink ◴[09 Jul 25 04:26 UTC] No.44506345[source]▶
Also interesting to contrast this to invocation or application (e.g. to invoke or apply). I'm sure there are fair few 'functional dialects' out there!