'method' vs. 'message' vs. 'function' vs. '???'

Question

I recently asked a question about what I called \"method calls\". The answer referred to \"messages\". As a self-taught hobby programmer trying to phrase questions that don\

Answer 1

I am pretty sure (but a quick Wikipedia check seems to confirm this) that the `message passing' terminology comes from the Smalltalk community. I think it is more or less equivalent to a method call.