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A subprogram (which defines a procedure), can be either a subroutine or a function; it is said to be an internal subprogram if it is called or invoked from the same program or subprogram that contains it, as follows program my_program ! declarations ! executable statements, ! among which...

A subprogram is said to be external when it is not contained in the main program, nor in a module or antoher subprogram. In particular it can be defined by means of a programming language other than Fortran. When an external subprogram is invoked, the compiler cannot access to its code, so all the ...