Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 23:31:29 -0700 From: "marty fouts" <mf.danger@gmail.com> To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, kmacy@fsmware.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <9f7850090605262331j352d98acwa3837251300c591b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4477EFDF.80608@alumni.rice.edu> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4477C401.2080307@rogers.com> <38C8392F-C345-41F7-A879-6C2F5D2C59F5@orthanc.ca> <b1fa29170605262035u4ac8f3jc0a022f335903522@mail.gmail.com> <1B5AEAC9-2A87-40F1-B2D4-2069DCBC30FE@orthanc.ca> <4477EFDF.80608@alumni.rice.edu>
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On 5/26/06, Jonathan Noack <noackjr@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 > > -- > 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)
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