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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>
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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

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