[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri May 26 20:44:56 PDT 2006


On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:35:23PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:
> 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.
> 

Is that percentage "per user" or "per user per cpu"?  :-)

I have 3 desktop systems and one dual-core 12 cpu cluster (6 nodes)
that make heavy use of Fortran.

I'll note I use gfortran instead of f77 (aka g77).
-- 
Steve


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