That's not a peculiarity. "Stack" is a metaphor just like "Keller" (cellar) is. And in fact "Keller" is the apparently older term, as it was already used in the

That's not a peculiarity. "Stack" is a metaphor just like "Keller" (cellar) is. And in fact "Keller" is the apparently older term, as it was already used in the original Samelson/Bauer patent. See Wikipedia: > Klaus Samelson and Friedrich L. Bauer of Technical University Munich proposed the idea of a stack called Operationskeller ("operational cellar") in 1955[6][7] and filed a patent in 1957.[8][9][10][11] In March 1988, by which time Samelson was deceased, Bauer received the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award for the invention of the stack principle.[12][7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type)#His...