Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:56:55PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote:

> > > God is real, unless declared integer.

> > >

> > >

> > > I thought about this for a while.  Given that the Spirit

> of God was upon the

> > > waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float.

> >

> > Remember, FORTRAN came before Genesis.

>

> In the beginning was the Word.  I suppose the variable type which uses

> the same number of bits as a word depends on the hardware on which you

> are running.  On amd64, what does that make God?

>

> If God always has something to say, perhaps God is an infinite string?

> Since God is everwhere in space-time, perhaps God is a SuperString.

>

> Doug.

>

There's gotta be something about WORD MARKS on IBM 1401 and friends.