From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 14:08:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19909 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:08:42 -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 OAA19888 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:08:39 -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 PAA08725; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:08:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA25613; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:08:20 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:08:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199812162208.PAA25613@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Nate Williams , Alfred Perlstein , Steve Kargl , bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) In-Reply-To: References: <199812162109.OAA24884@mt.sri.com> 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. > > ForTran is still a required class for engineering students. With good > reason. It's not dead, it's just not widely used outside of engineering. Not in any engineering school I've looked at recently. None of those where I interviewed students this year had Fortran as a required course. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message