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From: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How much hair? (was "Command interfaces")
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Date: 11 Dec 87 18:17:17 GMT
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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.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu