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

[Timothy Knox <tdk@vushta.com>]

Somewhere on Shadow Earth, Vicki Brown wrote:

>Associative arrays are not unique to Perl either. Awk has them. I'm sure
>something else does. If awk has them they were invented sometime before
>1983.

Rexx has them (though the date Rexx premiered escapes me at the moment (I 
believe it was the early '80s (or even the late '70s), but I could be 
wrong)). And IIRC, ScriptX had them (though that language was new enough 
to be influenced by Perl).

However, I believe that Perl was the first language to term the actual 
data structure a 'hash'.

Just my 2.02 yen worth, YMMV, void where prohibited by law.

--
Timothy Knox -- tdk@vushta.com
"Somehow they managed to make...creatures from another world boring. It 
takes a good deal of skill, many years of training, constant practice, 
and self-denial to do a job that huge." Geo. Alec Effinger, Idle Pleasures


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