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Invention of the stack

From: Walt <wamitty_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:17:37 GMT
Message-ID: <5S7xh.1379$xu4.704@trndny04> 





Bob Badour attributed the invention of stacks to Djikstra.  I would have
supposed that John McCarthy invented stacks somewhat earlier.



Does anyone know whether Djikstra got the idea for stacks from someone else,
or invented it independently?


Does anyone know whether stacks (sometimes called pushdown lists in the
early literature)  predate McCarthy's development of Lisp?
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