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Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:35:23PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:
> Irrelevant. The question is, as a percentage of FreeBSD users, how
> many use fortran? A much larger percentage use perl and python, and
> those are in ports.
> -Kip

Not irrelevant - we have a lot of things in the base system due to
history and tradition.  FORTRAN is one of them.
 
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