Re: When is a stack used in real life?

From: Peter Ammon (gershwin_at_splintermac.com)
Date: 05/08/04


Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 13:08:25 -0700

Gunnar G wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I need some help to find an interesting programming exerise.
> We are going to study the stack, and therefor I'm looking for an
> interesting real world example where a stack is natural to use to handle
> the data.
>
> It's not hard to find an example, one would be to simulate my desk and me
> shuffling paper, (since there are of course large piles of paper) but that
> would hardly be interesting.
>
> Any good ideas?
>
> TIA,
> Gunnar.

In OpenGL, there's a number of matrix transformation stacks.

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