In functional programming languages (e.g. Scala), and maybe other languages as well, streams are really more like functional lists and they are queues. I should note, however, queues can actually be implemented using a pair of lists. In Scala and probably elsewhere, a Stream is just a lazy List - more specifically, the tail of the list is a lazy val.

Functional streams can share some similarity with queues, as opposed to, lists, in that you can use them in a way that you don't keep a reference to the head of the stream - but you have to be careful: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5159356/3096687. This is somewhat analogous to a dequeue call to a queue (although in the case of a stream, you do so implicitly: http://daily-scala.blogspot.com/2010/01/streams-2-stream-construction.html).

In functional programming languages (e.g. Scala), and maybe other languages as well, streams are really more like functional lists and they are queues. I should note, however, queues can actually be implemented using a pair of lists. In Scala and probably elsewhere, a Stream is just a lazy List - more specifically, the tail of the list is a lazy val.

Functional streams can share some similarity with queues, as opposed to, lists, in that you can use them in a way that you don't keep a reference to the head of the stream - but you have to be careful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5159356/3096687. This is somewhat analogous to a dequeue call to a queue (although in the case of a stream, you do so implicitly: http://daily-scala.blogspot.com/2010/01/streams-2-stream-construction.html).