Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:19 -0400 From: Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, kmacy@fsmware.com, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <4477EFDF.80608@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <1B5AEAC9-2A87-40F1-B2D4-2069DCBC30FE@orthanc.ca> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> <b1fa29170605262035u4ac8f3jc0a022f335903522@mail.gmail.com> <1B5AEAC9-2A87-40F1-B2D4-2069DCBC30FE@orthanc.ca>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig97C40419A7C879B217907196 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/27/06 00:05, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > On May 26, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Kip Macy wrote: >> 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. >=20 > My gut feeling is that you just argued for moving the C compiler to > ports, too :-( You're forgetting that the kernel and most of userland are written in C. The C compiler isn't going anywhere... -Jonathan --=20 Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enig97C40419A7C879B217907196 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEd+/pUFz01pkdgZURAoJYAKDb/BBI4zBKF8D17XzF5GQm6pucQACgiKYH ZK0DrgPggteXLkHQlnvOmuw= =Lh8e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig97C40419A7C879B217907196--
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