Inversion of Control

Folks are trying to push back the history of the notion "Inversion of Control".

I can't recall the phrase itself, but the notion goes back at least into the late 1980s when the object-oriented community was talking about "libraries" (you call it) vs. "frameworks" (it calls you), e.g. Designing Reusable Classes, Johnson and Foote, 1988.

I bet the essence of IoC was also expressed by Peter Deutsch in 1983's "Reusability in the Smalltalk-80 Programming System". I can't remember if this paper actually used the term "framework". But that was a main point, and draws on the Smalltalk work they did at PARC in the 1970s, including the first "famous" inversion of control, Model View Controller, with Trygve Reenskaug