From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 22:11:55 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 8DEC116CC75 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 22:00:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FA343D53 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 22:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k4RM0RMF015192; Sat, 27 May 2006 15:00:27 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k4RM0R8G015191; Sat, 27 May 2006 15:00:27 -0700 Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:00:27 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Mike Jakubik Message-ID: <20060527220027.GA14039@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <20060527032148.GA2777@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477CB59.6040802@rogers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4477CB59.6040802@rogers.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, 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 22:12:20 -0000 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:45:29PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:14:09PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > =20 > >>Agreed, who the hell still uses Fortran? > >> =20 > > > >I don't see a smiley, so I can only assume you're speaking > >out of ignorance of the Fortran language. I guess I can > >also assume you have no knowledge of numerical analysis=20 > >and high performance computing. > > > >PS: Check the ChangeLog for gfortran. >=20 > Yes, i have no experience with Fortran, but the words high performance=20 > computing and the name of a prehistoric programming language just don't= =20 > appear in my sentences. Once again, who the hell uses Fortan on FreeBSD?= =20 > 0.1% of all users? Dozens of my users use FORTRAN on our FreeBSD cluster. It's highly unlikely this will change any time in the next decade. I'm sorry you're so isolated in your own little world that you can't imagine that anyone else could have have different requirements than you. It's really rather sad. :( -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEeMv6XY6L6fI4GtQRAhF9AJ4/mszBW+6CFn7hwJgQj3I+AeNFowCeLodo +Y/q85BsBulURYXs7B6Jirg= =oeDq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--