From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 06:21:36 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 B726716A44F for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from smtp106.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.52.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04AB743D48 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:21:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: (qmail 98008 invoked from network); 27 May 2006 06:21:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@24.99.22.177 with login) by smtp106.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 May 2006 06:21:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F794636F; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 1fDjKNBPnS04; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9765860EB; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4R6LTVH012000; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <4477EFDF.80608@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:19 -0400 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060422) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyndon Nerenberg References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> <1B5AEAC9-2A87-40F1-B2D4-2069DCBC30FE@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <1B5AEAC9-2A87-40F1-B2D4-2069DCBC30FE@orthanc.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig97C40419A7C879B217907196" Cc: Mike Jakubik , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, kmacy@fsmware.com, 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: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu 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 06:21:37 -0000 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--