Though many of us are computer scientists (at least by education), and engineers. Vocabulary does not just manifest out of thin air. Where do you think the word

Though many of us are computer scientists (at least by education), and engineers. Vocabulary does not just manifest out of thin air. Where do you think the words function, or algorithm came from? I can tell you they were in use before 1950. We have already collectively borrowed a huge amount of vocabulary from mathematics. There is nothing wrong with adopting a few more that accurately describe what these objects are. For example we could call Functor Mappable or some such but it falls short in describing the abstraction. For example functions of one argument form a Functor and its "map" is function composition. So for functions Mappable is a pretty poor name. Edit: Yes languages get this wrong but I was focusing on the borrowing of vocabulary more so than the correct usage of it. Many words are abused like Functor to mean function object in C++, functions referring to procedures, ad-hoc vs. parametric polymorphism, strong and weak typing ect.