From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 17:29:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14622 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14616 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13985; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:59:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:59:44 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, Nate Williams , Steve Kargl Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Dec-98 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Surprisingly, I would actually support this. > 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? Ahaha, wrong! I NEVER did fortran at uni and I've just finished my degree.. The languages I used where C, C++, Perl, csh, sh, Java, prolog and Haskell.. Are you suggesting we add Haskell to the base install? > Yes a lot of people have different expectations of FreeBSD, one of mine > and many compsci students is a useable FORTRAN enviornment. Hmm.. almost an oxymoron, but anyway... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message