Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: does Fortran 77 allow recursion? Message-ID: <4152@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:14:08 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4152 Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:14:08 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:27:07 EDT References: <367@ttrdc.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 11 >> ... >>I find the biggest >>weaknesses fortran has for scientific programming are: >> - no recursion - makes everything tough, especially multiple integration > I was under the impression that Fortran-77 allows recursion in the sense that > a routine may call itself either directly or through a chain of other routines- > am I mistaken? You are mistaken. A particular implementor may choose to allow recursion, but the Fortran 77 standard does not require it to be implemented.