Difference between a classless and classful routing protocol

What is the difference between a classless and classful routing protocol?

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Classless routing protocols promote subnet mask information all along with the network prefixes. Whereas classful routing protocols do not. Thus, for a classful protocol, all subnets for the main network number being employed should be of similar length. As well, classful protocol can’t support discontinuous networks prefixes.   

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