[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[Kip Macy]

Irrelevant. The question is, as a percentage of FreeBSD users, how
many use fortran? A much larger percentage use perl and python, and
those are in ports.


 -Kip



On 5/26/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>
> > Agreed, who the hell still uses Fortran?
>
> I have great gobs of RF design and analysis code that is written in
> F77 (and 66 for that matter).  In the RF engineering field the
> Fortran versions of Spice and friends are still quite popular.  And I
> know more than a handful of physicists who will never write a line of
> C code, and nor should they, since their existing Fortran tools are
> perfectly viable.  A lot of these people rely on the system shipping
> a Fortran compiler -- they're scientists, not sysadmins.  And believe
> me ... there IS a difference!  (Now the physics guys would be tickled
> pink if the system compiler was upgraded to F95 or better ;-)
>
> --lyndon
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