I've always wondered why one calls a function as opposed to, for example, executing it.
A Google search for function call etymology
and similar terms turns up nothing useful, Wikipedia doesn't mention it, online dictionaries have either no entry at all or no etymology section.
Where did the notion of 'calling' a function come from?
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or some variant thereof. It is possible that programming languages inherited the terminology from the underlying hardware, although that would still leave the question of why the hardware designers chose those names for the operations.