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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
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:14:08 1985
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>> ...
>>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.