From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 03:35:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35ED16A695 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 03:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4369043D4C for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 03:35:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 9so258731nzo for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tlb64sJIdRMtzumnyezfGw7yW0n+JbGp0EUuYjuD01nkXvh0ZJGIzierOPOJwDkSvzOg+Y+VKnV/Usy2r8EnAeI1XVHybgrqDS0mwPx5p+LGZR05zg+6cCVYWI2xtnuhSvaCsQLxv41Ai2WXpGfOKvQdfwhCgeKrpLcB2MuwFLI= Received: by 10.64.150.19 with SMTP id x19mr25586qbd; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.183.17 with HTTP; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:23 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Lyndon Nerenberg" In-Reply-To: <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> Cc: Mike Jakubik , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kmacy@fsmware.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 03:35:24 -0000 Irrelevant. The question is, as a percentage of FreeBSD users, how many use fortran? A much larger percentage use perl and python, and those are in ports. -Kip On 5/26/06, 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 ;-) > > --lyndon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >