From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 15:04:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26819 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26812 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:04:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA26944; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:03:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma026942; Wed, 16 Dec 98 17:03:09 -0600 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA12584; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:03:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199812162303.RAA12584@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <199812162227.OAA08758@tao.thought.org> References: <199812162227.OAA08758@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Gary Kline cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:03:08 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 December 1998 at 14:27, Gary Kline wrote: > I've always thought of a computer system _without_ FORTRAN > as serious lacking. Not because my first course was in F77; > after all, this was a few (um, 20) summers ago. But because > FORTRAN is still fairly widely used in the non-hacker > disciplines. > > If we do yank it--with or without extreme prejudice--then > when some non-geek user does an % appropos fortran, he should > see something like > > fortran: you gotta port it if you wanna use it. > > Nutshell: I'm almost neutral, but not entirely. The following patch is needed? :-) --- apropos.sh.orig Wed Dec 16 17:01:11 1998 +++ apropos.sh Wed Dec 16 17:02:00 1998 @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ do if grep -hi $grepopt -- "$manpage" $mandir; then : else - echo "$manpage: nothing appropriate" + echo "$manpage: port not installed -- go to /usr/ports" fi done | 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