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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. gmueckl ◴[09 Jul 25 06:38 UTC] No.44506943[source]▶

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"For" for loop statements fits with math jargon: "for every integer i in the set [1:20], ..."

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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?