Coding in style

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a very good dissertation about two completely different ways in which people write software: the open-source approach (with Linux as the main example) and the closed-source approach.

The entire text can be read freely at http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

Going into the details that the book covers would be superfluous. Like reinventing the wheel. I'll just say that it's a good reading for any software engineer, software architect or programmer.

A question of semantics: parameters vs arguments

The question I'm asking is simple: is there any difference between `parameters` and `arguments` when talking about the values a function expects?

Is it `argument list` or `parameter list`? Is it `function arguments` or `function parameters`? Is it `calling a function with these arguments` or `calling a function with these parameters`?

The answer is very simple: it's only a point of view problem. If you look from the caller's point of view, they're arguments. If you look from the callee's point of view, they're parameters.

So, which is correct for each of the above 3 pairs?