Because, for reading lists, recency bias is more correct than banishing newer reading to the bottom of a queue.
For lighter readers, that might represent a bestseller or something that their friends told them to read immediately, or it may represent textbooks or assigned reading for school. For bookworms, it represents prerequisites as reading is performed, either culturally or as informative resources.
I suppose the best analogy is that reading is very much a stack-driven process for most people: you learn about an idea, then load its prerequisites onto the stack, taking it as far down as the metaphorical rabbit hole cares to go and popping back out as prerequisites are understood. It's this execution model that makes reading so effective, and the stack-based sorting model conforms to this process naturally.
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Date: 2012-07-15 06:21 am (UTC)For lighter readers, that might represent a bestseller or something that their friends told them to read immediately, or it may represent textbooks or assigned reading for school. For bookworms, it represents prerequisites as reading is performed, either culturally or as informative resources.
I suppose the best analogy is that reading is very much a stack-driven process for most people: you learn about an idea, then load its prerequisites onto the stack, taking it as far down as the metaphorical rabbit hole cares to go and popping back out as prerequisites are understood. It's this execution model that makes reading so effective, and the stack-based sorting model conforms to this process naturally.