[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[Jonathan Noack]

On 05/27/06 00:05, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On May 26, 2006, at 8:35 PM, 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.
> 
> My gut feeling is that you just argued for moving the C compiler to
> ports, too :-(

You're forgetting that the kernel and most of userland are written in C.
 The C compiler isn't going anywhere...

-Jonathan

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