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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: What language do you use for scientific programming?
Message-ID: <1405@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 06:28:50 EDT
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>In article <238@zuring.UUCP> dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>In article <1350@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>>About recursion in f77 under 4.2.  We tried some small experiments and
>>...
>>It just might help to declare your variables automatic, so they
>>won't get stomped on by the recursive calls....
>>...
>>	automatic x, y, left, right
>Eh? Fortran 77?

Note the original text: "about recursion *in f77 under 4.2*".

(If you're going to be nonportable, at least you should do it cleanly :-) )
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