<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59045/call-vs-invoke-informatics-context">http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59045/call-vs-invoke-informatics-context</a><br><div><br></div><div>Notice this is in the wordsmith section of StackExchange...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Lewit, Douglas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d-lewit@neiu.edu" target="_blank">d-lewit@neiu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">I agree with Randy! I love the word "invocation"! It sounds like I'm an apprentice sorcerer trying to invoke a certain god or goddess, or angel or demon to do my bidding! ***Evil laughter in the background!***</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">What's interesting is how programming languages rise to popularity for whatever reason, lose their popularity and almost fade away into obsolescence, and then eventually return like a Phoenix from the burning hot ashes!</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Last summer I took this seven-week numerical class at Oakton College. The class was divided into three groups, depending on which programming language you used. We C++ people, Java people, and finally Fortran people. Interestingly enough, there was ONLY one student using Java! (Poor kid didn't even really know what he was doing! ) The rest of the class was equally divided between C++ and Fortran, and yet.... in the "real world" (the world I try to avoid as much as possible ) Java is many times more popular than C++ and Fortran. The professor said that Fortran is making a comeback, and he believed that was partially because of Python. Although honestly I am not aware of any connection between Fortran and Python, other than both languages are very popular with engineers and physics majors.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">The thing about this that I personally find very frustrating is that it can take YEARS to fully master a programming language. Then when you're finally ready for a job in that language, people tell you, "Oh sorry, that language is now obsolete! We don't use that anymore. Why don't you learn Language X or Y or Z or whatever?" A good example of that would be the Pascal, Cobol and Perl programmers. Can you imagine spending 5 years of your life learning Pascal, Cobol and Perl..... and then your interviews tell you, "Oh sorry, those languages are now extinct. Come back in 5 years after you learned one of the more modern languages!" </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">And of course to some degree I blame the professors in our various computer science departments. Shame on them for not keeping up with current trends in their industry!</font></div><div><font size="4"> </font></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Randy Baxley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy7771026@gmail.com" target="_blank">randy7771026@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=history+of+computer+progamming+nomenclature&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=history+of+computer+progamming+nomenclature&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8</a><br><br></div>I would think Madam Z might call the spirits all night and never invoke them. Myself I just like to say instatiate. No correlation. Sorry Mr. Nash.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Jason Wirth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wirth.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank">wirth.jason@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Does anyone know resources for the history of programming? For example: function call vs function invocation. <br><br>Why do we use these terms? More importantly, why use "invocation" when the simpler word "call" exists?<br><br>This is one example. I'm sure there are many other interesting nuggets of history.
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