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This uses the facility standardised in F90 whereby DO-loops can have text labels attached (not in the usual label area) so that the END DO statement can have the corresponding label, and any CYCLE statements can use it also. Similarly, the subroutine's END statement bears the name of the subroutine. This is just syntactic decoration. Rather more useful is extended syntax for dealing with arrays and especially the function
One could abandon the use of the named variables in favour of manipulating the array equivalent, and indeed develop code which performs the nested loops via messing with the array, but for simplicity, the individual variables are used. However, tempting though it is to write a systematic sequence of seven nested DO-loops, the variables are not in fact all independent: some are fixed once others are chosen. Just cycling through all the notional possibilities when one only is in fact possible is a bit too much brute-force-and-ignorance, though other problems with other constraints, may encourage such exhaustive stepping. As a result, the code is more tightly bound to the specific features of the problem.
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