From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 04:51:51 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 317E916B114 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 04:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0368C43D48 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 04:51:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.4/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4R4rXKU068079 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 27 May 2006 00:53:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 00:51:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5718028.KF6uti3sJK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605270052.07850.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_60, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1486/Fri May 26 12:24:22 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Mike Jakubik , Lyndon Nerenberg , 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 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 04:52:03 -0000 --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--