It's from Lisp, and where did Lisp take it from in the sixties, I don't know. Bu...

		TeMPOraL on May 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: String.intern() It's from Lisp, and where did Lisp take it from in the sixties, I don't know. But I'll bet that this particular Java method comes straight from Lisp, as there were some Lisp folks involved in making Java (in particular, Guy Steele worked on both Common Lisp ANSI standard and Java language specification).

And was one of the Scheme creators.