This document discusses the stack data structure and its operations. It defines a stack as a Last In First Out (LIFO) data structure. The main stack operations are push, which inserts an element into the stack, and pop, which removes an element from the stack. It also discusses using a stack to check for matching parentheses during program parsing. The document then provides implementations of stacks using both arrays and linked lists in C, demonstrating how to perform push and pop operations on each.