Revision as of 00:04, 27 June 2025 edit Guy Harris (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 79,925 edits →History: Separate "earliest computers" from "earliest microprocessors", to clarify that the Manchester Baby was one of the earliest (stored-program) computers and the RCS 1802 was an early microprocessor. (It wasn't one of the earliest, and two of the earliest, the Intel 4004 and Intel 4008, have program-counter stacks for... subroutine calls.) ← Previous edit		Revision as of 13:11, 27 June 2025 edit undo Chatul (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 8,433 edits →Terminology: PL/I uses procedure for both Next edit →
Line 18: ==Terminology== Some [[programming language]]s, such as [[COBOL]] and [[BASIC]], make a distinction between functions that return a value (typically called "functions") and those that do not (typically called "subprogram", "subroutine", or "procedure").; ~~Other programming languages~~some, such as [[C (programming language)\|C]], [[C++]], and [[Rust (programming language)\|Rust]], only use the term "function" irrespective of whether they return a value or not; others, such as [[ALGOL 60]] and [[PL/I]], only use the word ''procedure''. Some [[Object-oriented programming\|object-oriented]] languages, such as [[Java (programming language)\|Java]] and [[C Sharp (programming language)\|C#]], refer to functions inside [[Class (computer programming)\|classes]] as "[[Method (computer programming)\|method]]s". ==History==

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