Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:28:43 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: bright@hotjobs.com, nate@mt.sri.com, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <199812162128.NAA75612@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199812162109.OAA24884@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Dec 16, 1998 2: 9: 0 pm"
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>>>> >>>> I'd argue (heck, I am arguing. :) that it should be removed. >>>> >>> >>> Surprisingly, I would actually support this. >>> >> >> You realize that doing so makes FreeBSD look bad to new compsci students >> who all have to take that dreaded FORTRAN class sometime during their >> education? > > 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 95 is actually a more modern language than C if you go by the ISO ratification dates. Fortran 77 is a dead standard. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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