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

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 10:22 -0500 8/19/99, Jefferson R. Lowrey wrote:
> 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?

The hash part is Perl...

The term populate has been around longer than Perl.  Database people speak
of "populating" a table in a database, meaning to add attributes (or data).

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