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Nearly all programming languages that support threading, have a method called join. I understand what a join does, but would like to know what the origin behind the naming of it is? Wouldn’t a name such as finish be more appropriate?
Thread A and Thread B did different things and now they are going to kind of reunite because their results have to get exchanged – they will join each other, go on and eventually split up again.