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FORTRAN 77 is a non-recursive language, in the specific sense that it does not support recursive algorithms. What is missing is very simple: there is no way to specify that a value should go onto thea call stack. Local variables were all treated by compilers more or less as what C programmers would call "static". Subprogram parameters were all passed by reference, rather than by value as in C.