Re: Invention of the stack

>> According to a friend of a friend, McCarthy invented the stack for LISP in the fall of 1958, which puts it ahead of Dijkstra's invention of the stack by some months. <<

The Burroughs 5000 computers appeared in 1960 with a stack architecture that had been established some time well before then in a mechanical calculator. If yoiu wanted to really push it, you might claim that Rummy games use a stack concept. Received on Mon Feb 05 2007 - 22:28:19 CST