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I heard my old physics professor say "In FORTRAN GOD is real"



... "but not LOGICAL".


Actually, almost all Fortran code says "implicit none".


> Actually, almost all Fortran code says "implicit none".

... which would render GOD as of undeclared type. Compilers are such 'agnostics'.


Modern code often does, but I still see a lot of retro FORTRAN that maddeningly relies on implicits.




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