[Gllug] What is a hash?

[bredroll]

On 26 Jul 2001, Nix wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Warwick Harvey said:
> > Erm, I thought the "hash" character was #.
> 
> No, that's the mesh (according to Intercal) or the octothorpe (thanks to
> Don Macpherson, who invented it, and an Olympic athlete; see
> <http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm>).
> 
> ;)
> 
> > I also thought (though I'm not a perl programmer) that associative arrays in
> > perl were called hashes because they were implemented using a hash table (no
> > idea whether they are or not, I just assumed so :).
> 
> Exactly so. A silly name, they should have been called `maps', IMHO,
> because that's what they *do*.
> 

If someine says they should be called ORBS ill just laugh my ass off ;-)

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