From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 06:37:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C6B16A796 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mf.danger@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0102.google.com (hu-out-0102.google.com [72.14.214.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB1F43D46 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:37:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mf.danger@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 28so140368hug for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 23:37:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=te2RNx2NTsSu2vkgMHoFKofuSA+cwqcfOKseLwXgd0Tb0rvRSgrfWRGZa6VlLPWK1BK2oFxr+iWfDSEZNzQqQL62lKaSUSHUVk+mrVRReg+Rrr1o1WKYhoZCtG1e7GLKxx8Xi3hg5ThkoGi2WGy6dvANIHG9wADww7nHkKtfyTo= Received: by 10.49.21.13 with SMTP id y13mr109398nfi; Fri, 26 May 2006 23:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.49.17 with HTTP; Fri, 26 May 2006 23:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9f7850090605262331j352d98acwa3837251300c591b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 23:31:29 -0700 From: "marty fouts" To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu In-Reply-To: <4477EFDF.80608@alumni.rice.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> <1B5AEAC9-2A87-40F1-B2D4-2069DCBC30FE@orthanc.ca> <4477EFDF.80608@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: Mike Jakubik , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Lyndon Nerenberg , Steve Kargl , kmacy@fsmware.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 06:37:37 -0000 On 5/26/06, Jonathan Noack 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 > > -- > Jonathan Noack | noackjr@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)