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Date:      Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:22:25 -0400
From:      "John R. LoVerso" <loverso@sitaranetworks.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATTENTION PLEASE:  g77 in base system.
Message-ID:  <370E1B31.A35C417@sitara.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904082056190.19556-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904091036480.55462-100000@thelab.hub.org> <19990409155258.A3791@shale.csir.co.za> <370E0C68.3F59295C@newsguy.com>

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> Right or wrong, you forgot:
> 
> 5.  BSD tradition.
> 
> Case 5 justifies Fortran.

By that logic, you'd also have to add a Pascal compiler to the base system.

Neither makes much sense when they can both be ports (or packages) easily
addable at install or compile time by the small % of the FreeBSD population that
will actually use them.

John
"BSD & me: together since 1983"


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