Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:26:01 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com>
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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 ;-) --lyndon
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