[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:45:29PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> 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?

When was the current C standard ratified?  When was the
current Fortran standard ratified?  Does FreeBSD's C
compiler conform to that standard?

You can educate yourself at http://www.j3-fortran.org/

HPC and Fortran go hand in hand.  Clearly, you have no
clue as to what Fortran is.

-- 
Steve