[Chicago] History of programming

Jason Wirth wirth.jason at gmail.com
Wed May 27 00:42:43 CEST 2015


Does anyone know resources for the history of programming? For example:
function call vs function invocation.

Why do we use these terms? More importantly, why use "invocation" when the
simpler word "call" exists?

This is one example. I'm sure there are many other interesting nuggets of
history.
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