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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning It's an established term in software. I would speculate that the
by coder543 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning
It's an established term in software. I would speculate that the word "intern" is short for "internalizing" here.
- olddustytrail 2y agoI think it's from the Lisp "intern" function, which creates an internal symbol if it doesn't already exist and there's no external symbol of the same name.
- vacuity 2y ago"Intern" (job) -> staying at a workplace for some time to be trained and do some work "Intern" (software) -> staying resident in memory to be referred to canonically I find that often words do come about with a surprising amount of sense.