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Sander Rossel17-Apr-19 20:36
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MikeTheFid18-Apr-19 5:43
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kalberts18-Apr-19 1:22
kalberts18-Apr-19 1:22 
In Fortran (at least in the old days, Fortran IV and thereabouts) has no reserved words. Spaces have no significance. So you could declare a variable named INTEGER

REAL INTEGER
INTEGER = 3.14

or a subroutine named FUNCTION to be invoked by

CALL FUNCTION(...)

The standard loop construct is the DO loop, but

DO U BLEP RECISION IF

is not the start of a loop. Rather, you could make a comparison with the above variable

IF (IF.GT.INTEGER) ...

In my student days, there was a single course teaching Fortran. We made it a habit to solve the execizes using predefined identifiers only. Sort of like OCCC, but it took far less effort to obfuscate Fortran.
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