From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 13:23:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13783 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13772 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA08278; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:20:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA25067; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:20:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:20:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199812162120.OAA25067@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, bright@hotjobs.com, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) In-Reply-To: <11083.913842995@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <199812162109.OAA24884@mt.sri.com> <11083.913842995@verdi.nethelp.no> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I don't know of *ANY* University that teaches Fortran to Comp. Sci > > students. Fortran is a dead language, and is only used by engineers > > that have already existing Fortran code. > > As far as I know, new code is definitely being written in Fortran 90. > I hardly think it qualifies as a dead language yet. Read what I said. It is only used by engineers that have already existing Fortran code. It doesn't mean new code isn't written, but the new code that is written tends to be written by folks who already have written lots of Fortran code. Very few students know Fortran, unless they are required to learn it to help our their teachers maintain existing code. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message