Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:34:37 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <19981216133437.B2782@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199812162120.OAA25067@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:20:34PM -0700 References: <199812162109.OAA24884@mt.sri.com> <11083.913842995@verdi.nethelp.no> <199812162120.OAA25067@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:20:34PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Very few students know Fortran, unless they are required to learn it to > help our their teachers maintain existing code. :( There are lots of new astronomers who learn (or at least absorb) Fortran as undergraduates, not because they need to maintain old code, but because that's what everyone around them uses. There's Fortran books lying about, there's decades of Fortran experience to ask questions of, etc. In my experience, astronomers who write C code still look like they're writing Fortran. :-) -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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