Re: Invention of the stack
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:45:57 +0100
Message-ID: <52lrr6F1oat0eU1_at_mid.individual.net>
Walt schrieb:
> Does anyone know whether Djikstra got the idea for stacks from someone else,
> or invented it independently?
In Germany, there's also the olden term Keller (Cellar) for a stack datastructure. Names that should be mentioned are
Jan Lukasiewicz
Friedrich Ludwig Bauer (he and Samelson patented the stack)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ludwig_Bauer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_L._Bauer
Helmut Angstl
Klaus Samelson
> Does anyone know whether stacks (sometimes called pushdown lists in the
> early literature) predate McCarthy's development of Lisp?
Lisp is actually an implementation of lambda calculus (developed by Alonzo Church, 1934).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus
Regards,
Joachim
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