Talk:LIFO (computing)

message: Could a stack of plates be used as a better analogy to help explain LIFO rather than a crowded elevator?
eg: a dish is placed on top of the stack, and when one is needed, it's taken off the top of the stack.
: You're onto something, but the problem with plates is that their order doesn't really make a difference as they're typically all the same. --TuukkaH 13:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, queue is not a stack and therefore not a LIFO but FIFO structure! Better analogy is a bookshelf where you place books on the top of one another. This way you can directly access only the last book you placed on the top. They are all books (the same class) but different ones (different objects - instances). --kostandin 22:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unfortunately books tend to get placed in a bookshelf next to one another ;-) Trying to come up with stacks, I remember in carpet shops and the likes, the salesperson would show the carpets in a huge stack by taking the topmost and moving it to the top of another stack. --TuukkaH 23:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lipshultz uses an illustration of a spring loaded commercial dish stack cart/holder, where the bottom spring compresses as dishes are added, and pushes up as they are taken off. This is fine as a graphic, but only as a graphic. (repeated in line as commented out note) I tend to agree the observation elsewhere on this page that dishes are too similar (as are pieces of paper) without a graphic aid showing the forced ordering. // FrankB 16:59, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better analogy? 

message: I have added the cleanup tag, The first paragraph under "In Computer" seems to have had a cut off ending as it does not make sense and finishes with a comma. The further 2 lines are awkward and I am sure somebody with the appropriate literary skills could rewrite them into something better.
203.214.82.130 12:14, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: * and a references section. A few text book references, even indirect mentions of stacks and stack operations should be good enough. Ahhh, got one--Schaum's Data Structures! My bookshelves seem more bent toward algorithm texts. // FrankB 16:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Added {Unref}

message: ;duplicate post of :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:FIFO#It_occurs_to_me
after THIS CHANGE, that the article has been slanted by the experience and knowledge of it's contributors without understanding the distinctions involved into one that is essentially a computing article. LIFO and FIFO are in essence Information Theory topics which are implemented in computing as stack (data structure) and queue (data structure), for computer manipulation of data. Management science and certainly accounting use of the same term suggests perhaps both these topics be rewritten to be a general Information sciences treatment and leave the computer implementations to the articles on stacks and queues!
*I've accordingly added the cats:  to see if some other eyes have a interest in this point. 
*See also the discussion on talk:FIFO about merging, which supports my thought. // FrankB 20:30, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  It occurs to me 

message: 'Last in first out' is also a common term in employment contracts in the UK at least, where troubled companies make the last employees to join redundant first, hence 'last in first out'. Its very common in large factories etc. where work is not inherantly skilled and so removing the newest worker won't reduce the capabilities of the organisation. Perhaps it should be included here or on a disambig page. WikipedianProlific(Talk) 23:32, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other meanings 

message: A stack is also known as a LIFO queue; and any data structure that has LIFO behavior is per definition a stack. In fact the article LIFO (computing) discusses stacks at length. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 09:46, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: When looking at the traffic stats for the LIFO (computing) redirect, they don't seem to be affected at all.  Though, when looking at the  search results for "LIFO", for some reason they're pretty bad as it seems that Stack (abstract data type) is nowhere to be found; as we know, LIFO (computing) used to be on top of the search results.  Perhaps we should wait for a few more days, but the changes should've been already picked up since the merger was performed.  By the way, I've tagged the redirect and talk pages, following the WP:PROMERGE procedure. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 06:22, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. That reminds me that I have some more merged articles to tag. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 09:54, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Stack (abstract data type)]]