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def, func, fun, fn, sub: Why Every Language Has a Different Word for the Same Thing

March 30, 2026 programming-languagesfunctionshistoryfortranpythonrusthaskellkotlin

Open almost any programming language reference and you will find, somewhere near the beginning, a section explaining how to define a reusable named block of code. The concept is universal. The word …

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