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>The issue is what you give up.

This is the feature, not a bug. The purpose of fortran and why it is a fast efficient tool for scientists to write software is is exactly that it hides implementation details and is a bad systems language.

It allows you to define the important math parts of your program and hides the implementation part exactly so the compiler has a lot more power to optimize.




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