Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:50:08 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <199812162250.QAA12473@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812161605480.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812161605480.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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On 16 December 1998 at 16:09, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> wrote: > You realize that doing so makes FreeBSD look bad to new compsci students > who all have to take that dreaded FORTRAN class sometime during their > education? I thought you were being sarcastic here when I first read this paragraph. I didn't think any schools still taught FORTRAN as part of a computer science curriculum. Mathematics or engineering curriculums, maybe, but not computer science. > Just one vote for keeping f2c and friends, or perhaps getting g77. I vote that FORTRAN is a waste of bits. :-) > Yes a lot of people have different expectations of FreeBSD, one of mine > and many compsci students is a useable FORTRAN enviornment. s/compsci/engineering/ and I could agree. Keeping FORTRAN as part of the FreeBSD base system is not the way to achieve this goal. I'd say it is a good way to guarantee a sub-standard FORTRAN environment. Thus this whole discussion, I guess. And many of my comments go for Perl/Tcl/sh/csh/C et. al. also, so there. :-) -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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