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Control Flow

 

All structured programming languages need constructs which provide a facility for conditional execution. The simplest method of achieving this functionality is by using a combination of IF and GOTO which is exactly what FORTRAN 66 supported. Fortran has progressed since then and now includes a comprehensive basket of useful control constructs. Fortran 90 supports:

and less importantly,

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