History
The stack was first proposed in 1946, in the computer design of Alan M. Turing (who used the terms "bury" and "unbury") as a means of calling and returning from subroutines. In 1957, the Germans Klaus Samelson and Friedrich L. Bauer patented the idea. The same concept was developed, independently, by the Australian Charles Leonard Hamblin in the first half of 1957.
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