Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 16:31:18 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/math/r - Imported sources Message-ID: <19980504163118.A25290@mph124.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199805042027.NAA22519@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from Steve Kargl on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 01:27:32PM -0700 References: <199805041753.KAA26756@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805042027.NAA22519@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 01:27:32PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > If this is a programming language similar to Fortran, > then shouldn't this be be under ports/lang? I will direct you to the message I posted to ports@freebsd.org yesterday, asking if anyone had an opinion one way or another, and the lack of responses I got. I guess everyone's busy arguing about ijb. My thinking is that Matlab is also used for mathematical programming, but we put octave in math. R is, as far as I saw, purely intended for doing math, whereas Fortran is a general purpose language, and putting it in math makes no more sense than putting it in astro, cad, or biology. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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