Xref: utzoo comp.os.misc:329 comp.unix.wizards:5667 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!rutgers!princeton!udel!burdvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!aero!venera.isi.edu!raveling From: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: How much hair? (was "Command interfaces") Message-ID: <4306@venera.isi.edu> Date: 11 Dec 87 18:17:17 GMT Sender: daemon@venera.isi.edu Reply-To: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Paul Raveling) Organization: Information Sciences Institute Lines: 18 In article <2805@zeus.TEK.COM> bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes: >In article <22244@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes: > > For example, FORTRAN has no natural mechanism for recursion. One can do > recursion in FORTRAN, albeit painfully. ... HP FORTRAN, at least as supplied on 9000/320's and 350's, supports recursion by default, much as C does. If a program needs static data allocation, it's necessary to either type particular data as static or compile with a switch to force compatibility with older, nonrecursive FORTRAN implementations. --------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu