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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system
In-Reply-To: <199812162303.RAA12584@spawn.nectar.com> from Jacques Vidrine at "Dec 16, 98 05:03:08 pm"
To: n@nectar.com (Jacques Vidrine)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:14:49 -0800 (PST)
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According to Jacques Vidrine:
> On 16 December 1998 at 14:27, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> 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 | 
> 
> 

		Yup.  Or touché!

		merci et bonne journée,

		gary
> 
> 
> 


-- 
   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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