[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Fri May 26 20:45:30 PDT 2006


Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:14:09PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>   
>> Agreed, who the hell still uses Fortran?
>>     
>
> I don't see a smiley, so I can only assume you're speaking
> out of ignorance of the Fortran language.  I guess I can
> also assume you have no knowledge of numerical analysis 
> and high performance computing.
>
> PS: Check the ChangeLog for gfortran.
>   

Yes, i have no experience with Fortran, but the words high performance 
computing and the name of a prehistoric programming language just don't 
appear in my sentences. Once again, who the hell uses Fortan on FreeBSD? 
0.1% of all users?



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