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FORTRAN 77 is ''not'' a recursive language, in the specific sense that it does not support recursive algorithms. Local variables, in standard-conforming programs, 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.
''However'', it is perfectly possible to implement a recursive language ''in'' FORTRAN 77 and do the programming in ''that''.
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