Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:24:12 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Umina" <chris@uminac.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why fortran mailing list? Message-ID: <CAJxEW_wBJ34YonUXah=5QgTmccYGkQW0wF0jfbEwH8UNREBTKw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130709231808.GA92444@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <201307091642.r69GgjXF071178@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20130709231808.GA92444@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Fortran is pretty much a standard in the scientific world and I for one have been quite upset about the fact that I'm constantly forced away from FreeBSD for such things. Needless to say I was quite surprised that a list was created specifically for Fortran discussion, but I'm also very excited to see the level of interest in the community. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:42:45PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> Steve, you beat me to post the first message... > > Well, I scan the email archives every few days, and I > was surprised to see a Fortran specific list. > >> I suggested this list in: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2013-June/022145.html >> >> In addition to the reasons in that post, >> here's one more: this list might >> be a better maintainer than ports@ for >> several fortran related ports. >> > > The few ports that I use, which need Fortran, seem to just > work. This is probably due to the backwards compatibility > of Fortran 2008 with F2003, F95, F90, and F77. OpenMPI is > the only Fortran code that I routinely build outside of the > ports. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fortran > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fortran-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Christopher J. Umina chris@uminac.com 781 354 0535
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