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Re:Fortran Package Manager by 174SIGSEGV on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:17AM (#26977964)
Well, in FORTRAN, GOD is REAL (and JESUS is INTEGER, but that's not as funny). Even modern fortran has to maintain this feature for legacy reasons, leading one to add 'implicit none' to the beginning of each module etc.
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Re:Fortran Package Manager by jabl on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:49AM (#26978137)
> in FORTRAN, GOD is REAL

.. but not COMPLEX nor LOGICAL

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Re:Fortran Package Manager by skissane on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:31AM (#26978359)
> > in FORTRAN, GOD is REAL

> but not COMPLEX

Theology concurs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_simplicity

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