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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:03:11 -0500
From:      Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) 
Message-ID:  <199812171303.IAA07279@spooky.rwwa.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:21:04 PST." <50335.913857664@zippy.cdrom.com> 

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jkh@zippy.cdrom.com said:
:- most number crunching weenies don't want to take time out to figure
:- out how to install the stupid thing, they just want to get their work
:- done.

So you argument is that even though they don't have any problem installing
their favorite graphics package or game or TeX of whatever from a package,
installing a fortran compiler from a package will totally baffle them?

Seems weak to me.

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Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM



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