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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

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156 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 04:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
1. burnt-resistor ◴[09 Jul 25 08:47 UTC] No.44507669[source]▶
Because, obviously, we stand out in a field of the code segment and shout the address we which to jump to or push onto the stack. ;)