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The formal analogy between \(\mathbb{N}\) (or \(\mathbb{Z}\)), \(\mathbb{Q}\), and \(\mathbb{R}\) on one side, and \(\mathbb{F}_q[x]\), \(\mathbb{F}_q(x)\), and \(\mathbb{F}_q((x))\) on the other side (\(\mathbb{F}_q\) is the finite field with \(q\) elements) leads to many interesting developments where it can happen that results can be proven in one context, whereas their counterparts are still conjectures. In the paper under review, the author concentrates on both elliptic curves and Drinfeld modules in the second setting: these two distinct objects share somehow the properties of elliptic curves over number fields. The author first addresses good reduction, explicit class field theory, rational points, modular forms, Galois representations and finiteness theorems\dots, then he turns to recent results -- or conjectures -- on elliptic curves over function fields, still carefully comparing statements with the classical ones (Mordell-Weil rank, gonality, analogs of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures, analog of the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil modularity conjecture, to cite but a few examples). This makes this paper with its 58-item bibliography an interesting and useful survey. Please note that reference [GR] meanwhile appeared in [\textit{E.-U. Gekeler} and \textit{M. Reversat}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 476, 27--93 (1996; Zbl 0848.11029)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1003.00014].