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I have never heard about the distinction anywhere in mathematics. Is this specific to programming?

• tempodox 10y ago
  I think so. Mathematicians talk about “arguments”, but I've never seen “parameter” used. There are more differences in that specific area: Mathematicians apply functions to their arguments. Only a programmer would attempt to “call” a function. That's actually a remnant from “calling a subroutine”, what we did in assembler, even before functions were a thing in programming.