RE: Use of 'populate'

["Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>]

Al Geist wrote:

 

Populate is also used extensively on the software side to describe the

automatic entry of information into data fields (or filling in the data

fields) of a window or page.

 

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Like I said:

 

"I have heard it used to describe the process of automatically loading a
database field"...

 

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WADR*:  If a term is not defined at an accessible place, it is demoted
from jargon to gobbledegook.  The software industry is notoriously full
of these.  The easy fix is to create a company glossary of terms, but
unless the glossary is made available to everybody who will come up
against the terms (such as all product users) it's a better choice to
find a better word.  IMNSHO, YMMV, etc.

 

Dori Green

 

*WADR = With all due respect

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