• Stacks are used to avoid recursion, replace the implicit/actual stack of functions called recursively

• Stacks are used to evaluate arithmetic expressions, to implement compilers, to implement interpretors

  • The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a stack-based machine

  • Postscript is a stack-based language

  • Stacks are used to evaluate arithmetic expressions in many languages

  • CPS 140 - write an interpretor, LR Parsing - uses stacks