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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: How much hair? (was \"Command interfaces\")
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Date: 22 Dec 87 13:17:33 GMT
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	[FORTRAN has no direct way of doing recursion]
	Is it any surprise that FORTRAN programmers rarely find a need for
	recursion? 

Not strictly true. *Implementations* of FORTRAN *traditionally* have no
way of directly doing recursion. Thus, the standard does not require
that recursion bw supported.

However, FORTRAN is not *intrinsicly* hostile to recursion, and several
implementations *have* done it, sometimes requiring the keyword 'recursive'
on the affected subroutines, sometimes not.

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	National Bureau of Standards
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