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Drawbacks of FORTRAN 77

FORTRAN 77 was limited in the following areas,

  1. awkward `punched card' or `fixed form' source format;
  2. inability to represent intrinsically parallel operations;
  3. lack of dynamic storage;
  4. non-portability;
  5. no user-defined data types;
  6. lack of explicit recursion;
  7. reliance on unsafe storage and sequence association features.

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