From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 15 04:54:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA24246 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de [160.45.24.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA24241 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Mon, 15 Sep 97 13:54 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for ksmm@cybercom.NET id ; Mon, 15 Sep 97 13:54 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14608; Mon, 15 Sep 97 11:52:28 +0200 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 97 11:52:28 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9709150952.AA14608@wavehh.hanse.de> To: ksmm@cybercom.NET Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: language choices on FreeBSD Newsgroups: hanse-ml.freebsd.chat References: <398.874278327@time.cdrom.com> <3.0.3.32.19970914222521.009dbad0@cybercom.net> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> yes jordan, people still do use fortran... please keep them... >> >>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.) C :-) Seriously, since FreeBSD has virtually no commercial language implementations and most free most implementations run on all Unix derivates equally well, I think FreeBSD is not too much different from any other Unix derivates. Since the port system makes trying out new languages easier, FreeBSD maybe makes the range of interesting languages even bigger. Unique points for FreeBSD are: - Important network service (CVSup) implemented in Modula-3, and well-maitained Modula-3 port, probably in best shape of all M3 platform. - Using Tcl in the base system. - Currently the best x86 platform to run CMU Common Lisp. Overall, ANSI C clearly rules here :-) Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg/Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/