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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