Re: Hacker MUDSTEALER ALERT 3536@crs19.crl.aecl.ca>

From: Mark A. Heilpern (heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: 11/03/97


At 11:24 AM 11/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>A stack is FIFO, First in, First out, as in push and pop.  A stack of
>dishes.
>
>A queue is LIFO, Last in, First out, like a conveyor belt.( so I
>couldn't think of a good practical example, sue me :)
>

Perhaps as soon as you hit the send button, you realized that in fact
a push/pop device (stack of dishes) is LIFO, while a conveyor belt
is FIFO.


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