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Re:Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? by zabzonk on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:18AM (#44506544)
In Fortran, it is a do-loop :)
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Re:Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? by bee_rider on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:41AM (#44506646)
Fortran has grown a lot over time. If somebody said it don’t have a do loop in 196X, I wouldn’t be too surprised.

Really it’s just syntactic sugar, just use a goto.

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Re:Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? by pklausler on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:38AM (#44506939)
The entire point of Fortran was being an effective optimizing compiler for DO loops.
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Re:Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? by bregma on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @12:23PM (#44511900)
FORTRAN IV, at least the version I used on the PDP-11 running RSX, did not have a DO-loop. Just IF and GO TO. But it did have both logical and arithmetic IF.
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Re:Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? by pklausler on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:49PM (#44515503)
I don’t believe this.
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