Re: [MacPerl-Forum] origin of 'populating a hash'

["Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>]

> I've been writing some code that, among other things, populates a hash.
>
> I started to wonder about that particular turn of phrase, and whence it
came...
>
> Does anyone know?  Is it a Camelism, or does it have origins before that?
> I mean, I could understand filling a hash, or a bunch of other things.  But
> populate?
>

What cha do is get cha a nice flat table, see.
Then ya git the glass globe from a table clock.
Next place a piece of cheese on the table;
then place a toothpick in the cheese.

Now, carefully place the hash on the toothpick.

Fire it up and after a few seconds, cover it with
the glass clock globe ...


Oh, sorry, wrong hash...
-Sneex-  :]

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