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Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, marty fouts <mf.danger@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system
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On Saturday 27 May 2006 17:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >Well, if it A touches 0.0001% of FreeBSD users, POLA isn't really
> >relevant. I fail to name at least 1 person who seriously relies on
> >Fortran in the base FreeBSD among at least 2,000 FreeBSD users I know.
>
> ... who can't figure out how to install a compiler from ports.
>
> Yes, Fortran does no longer belong in the base system, and quite
> frankly, it never did.

I actually use Fortran at work.

We have some data analysis code written in it.

I think it should be removed from base, it is trivial to install it from=20
ports.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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