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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 01:23:11 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199812162006.NAA24553@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 16, 98 01:06:51 pm
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> > There is already a Fortran compiler in the base system.
> 
> I'd argue (heck, I am arguing. :) that it should be removed.

And the C compiler, while you are at it.

And troff and the other text processing tools.

And Common LISP.

Let's see, are we leaving out any of the steps used by Sun to
piss off people who used to buy SunOS before they unbundled
the languages?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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