Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 00:51:55 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <200605270052.07850.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca>
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--nextPart5718028.KF6uti3sJK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 26 May 2006 23:26, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > On May 26, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > Agreed, who the hell still uses Fortran? > > I have great gobs of RF design and analysis code that is written in > F77 (and 66 for that matter). In the RF engineering field the > Fortran versions of Spice and friends are still quite popular. And > I know more than a handful of physicists who will never write a > line of C code, and nor should they, since their existing Fortran > tools are perfectly viable. A lot of these people rely on the > system shipping a Fortran compiler -- they're scientists, not > sysadmins. And believe me ... there IS a difference! (Now the > physics guys would be tickled pink if the system compiler was > upgraded to F95 or better ;-) I don't personally use Fortran, but I know a lot of engineers that do. =20 Though they use a much more recent version than Fortran 77. I'd vote=20 for removing it if it will make the import easier, but one or more=20 =46ortran compilers in the ports would need to be on the disc1 install=20 ISO. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart5718028.KF6uti3sJK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEd9r3xqA5ziudZT0RAp12AJ4lHmYq9THnAU80rqez0uYJpT5zQwCg3ybK /pB5mbaXTL14wItCIRFPeeU= =jeqK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5718028.KF6uti3sJK--
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