Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:23 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <b1fa29170605262035u4ac8f3jc0a022f335903522@mail.gmail.com> 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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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 <lyndon@orthanc.ca> 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= " >
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