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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

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221 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 09 Jul 25 04:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.539s | source
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seabass ◴[09 Jul 25 04:49 UTC] No.44506423[source]▶
I love this sort of cs history. I’m also curious—why do we “throw” an error or “raise” an exception? Why did the for loop use “for” instead of, say, “loop”?
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1. antod ◴[09 Jul 25 04:55 UTC] No.44506448[source]▶
I'm guessing "throw" came about after someone decided to "catch" errors.

As for "raise", maybe exceptions should've been called objections.

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2. zahlman ◴[09 Jul 25 16:08 UTC] No.44511745[source]▶

  RuntimeObjection: autopsy report changed contents during cross-examination