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To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> >You haven't answered my question at all.  I've no doubt that people
> >still use fortran, that was not my question.
> 
> Is there anybody out there using FreeBSD as a platform for FORTRAN?  What
> languages are people programming in out there on FreeBSD?  (Just out of
> curiosity.)

Here we are using C, Tcl, FORTRAN, IDL & sh.    We've just undertaken a 
joint venture which will probably see several modules written in 
FORTRAN exhibiting heavy code reuse (probably upwards of 50,000 lines 
of code).

mike