From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 9 14: 7:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.sitaranetworks.com (apollo.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49B9B1604B for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from loverso@sitara.net) Received: from sitara.net (jamaica.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.147]) by apollo.sitaranetworks.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA28436 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:24:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <370E1B31.A35C417@sitara.net> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:22:25 -0400 From: "John R. LoVerso" Reply-To: loverso@sitaranetworks.com Organization: Sitara Networks, http://surf.to/loverso/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. References: <19990409155258.A3791@shale.csir.co.za> <370E0C68.3F59295C@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message