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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:59 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system
Message-ID:  <20060527035859.GB3251@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060527035306.GH744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <D65FE4A4-0975-465D-807A-9F7FF93763C8@orthanc.ca> <20060527035306.GH744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-May-26 20:19:15 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >On May 26, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> >>  1) History.  A Fortran 77 compiler has been available in the
> >>     base system since FreeBSD was known as 386BSD+patchkit.
> >
> >A Fortran 77 compiler has been in the base system since 4.2BSD.
> 
> So was Pascal but we no longer have that.  UUCP and games have
> been unbundled from the base system.  Perl was removed from the
> base system due to the difficulty in maintaining it within the
> base system.
> 
> - Nothing in the base system depends on FORTRAN.
> - It is a modular component that can be readily removed.
> - Its retention will increase the difficulty of migrating to gcc 4.x.
> - Several FORTRAN compilers are available in ports.
> 
> I think it's removal is justified.
> 

I completely agree with Peter with the caveat that the
name of the Language is Fortran not FORTRAN.  :-)

-- 
Steve



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