Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:59 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <20060527035859.GB3251@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060527035306.GH744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <D65FE4A4-0975-465D-807A-9F7FF93763C8@orthanc.ca> <20060527035306.GH744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-May-26 20:19:15 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >On May 26, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > >> 1) History. A Fortran 77 compiler has been available in the > >> base system since FreeBSD was known as 386BSD+patchkit. > > > >A Fortran 77 compiler has been in the base system since 4.2BSD. > > So was Pascal but we no longer have that. UUCP and games have > been unbundled from the base system. Perl was removed from the > base system due to the difficulty in maintaining it within the > base system. > > - Nothing in the base system depends on FORTRAN. > - It is a modular component that can be readily removed. > - Its retention will increase the difficulty of migrating to gcc 4.x. > - Several FORTRAN compilers are available in ports. > > I think it's removal is justified. > I completely agree with Peter with the caveat that the name of the Language is Fortran not FORTRAN. :-) -- Steve
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