Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Cc: bright@hotjobs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <199812170148.RAA84152@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981217115944.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Dec 17, 1998 11:59:44 am"
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According to Daniel O'Connor: > > On 16-Dec-98 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > 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? > Ahaha, wrong! > I NEVER did fortran at uni and I've just finished my degree.. > > The languages I used where C, C++, Perl, csh, sh, Java, prolog and Haskell.. > Obviously, you've never done any number crunching. -- 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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