Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981216170351.25694J-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <199812162109.OAA24884@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > I don't know of *ANY* University that teaches Fortran to Comp. Sci > students. Fortran is a dead language, and is only used by engineers > that have already existing Fortran code. ForTran is still a required class for engineering students. With good reason. It's not dead, it's just not widely used outside of engineering. Jamie Bowden -- Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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