[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri May 26 20:59:02 PDT 2006
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-May-26 20:19:15 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >On May 26, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> >> 1) History. A Fortran 77 compiler has been available in the
> >> base system since FreeBSD was known as 386BSD+patchkit.
> >
> >A Fortran 77 compiler has been in the base system since 4.2BSD.
>
> So was Pascal but we no longer have that. UUCP and games have
> been unbundled from the base system. Perl was removed from the
> base system due to the difficulty in maintaining it within the
> base system.
>
> - Nothing in the base system depends on FORTRAN.
> - It is a modular component that can be readily removed.
> - Its retention will increase the difficulty of migrating to gcc 4.x.
> - Several FORTRAN compilers are available in ports.
>
> I think it's removal is justified.
>
I completely agree with Peter with the caveat that the
name of the Language is Fortran not FORTRAN. :-)
--
Steve
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