I didn't mean to use that wiki as gospel, but the book citation I linked seems to hold up. And for a concept like pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference, I don't t

I didn't mean to use that wiki as gospel, but the book citation I linked seems to hold up. And for a concept like pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference, I don't think it's a good idea to go and come up with your own definitions if you don't have a very good reason to do so. While I agree that computing is a still a young field, and lots of stones are still rolling, it's still important to establish some common language and models just in order to communicate ideas. This includes not overloading terms that have been clearly established by now. If you find a well-known source[1] that would disagree with the terminology as cited, I'd be happy to revise my opinion. [1] such as Kay, Ritchie, Dijkstra, Engelbart or even Matsumoto, Van Rossum, Eich, Crockford.