[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[marty fouts]

On 5/26/06, Jonathan Noack <noackjr at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
> 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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> Jonathan Noack | noackjr at alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195
>

I dunno. If you follow this to its logical conclusion, since most
people don't compile anything, there's no reason for *any* compiler to
be in the base system.

(removes tongue from cheek)