[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Fri May 26 21:04:16 PDT 2006


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?
> 

Probably the same number of users who use quotas+snapshots =-D

Scott


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