What are some real-world applications of Stacks? (Undo/Redo, Browser History)

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Stack Applications, Undo-Redo Mechanisms, State Management

Stack Applications

Stacks are useful whenever the most recent operation or state must be processed first. This LIFO behavior naturally models nested operations, history traversal, backtracking, and expression processing.

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Undo functionality: recent actions are pushed and popped in reverse order.
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Redo functionality: a second stack can track actions that were undone.
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Browser history can use stacks to model backward and forward navigation.
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Function calls and recursion use the runtime call stack.
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Expression parsing and evaluation use stacks.
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Depth-First Search can be implemented using an explicit stack.
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