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- From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
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- Subject: Re: Pronouncing "deque"
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 07:11:30 GMT
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- On Sat, 20 Jan 1996 12:55:22 +0800, Tim North (North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
- : Simple question, but how does one pronounce "deque"? Is it:
- :
- : (a) deck;
- : (b) dee-cue; or
- : (c) something else?
- :
-
- Knuth, ``The Art of Computer Programming, v. 1'', p. 235:
-
- A deque is therefore more general than a stack or a queue; it has
- some properties in common with a deck of cards, and it is pronounced
- in the same way.
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