Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:15:50 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au, (Nate Williams) <nate@mt.sri.com> Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <XFMail.981218151550.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199812180436.VAA24884@usr06.primenet.com>
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On 18-Dec-98 Terry Lambert wrote: > To jump on Jordan's favorite analogy, the car, these guys are > drivers, not mechanics, and they are so far afield from the guts > of how the tool works (other than its applicability as a tool) > that if the Os were a car and it ran out of gas, they would buy a > new car rather than learn where the gas cap was. > This *doesn't* mean that a typical physicist should have to trapse > through a maze of twisty checkboxes in categories recognizable to > computer scientists (and maybe technical lexicographers, but not > physicists) which all look alike, just to install what was, > historically, a base system component. These two statements conflict.. The physicist wouldn't be installing the software (or fitting out the car) the sys admin would.. And IF you do have someone who doesn't 'know where the fuel cap is' installing FreeBSD then they're probably using the novice install, in which case you give them fortran.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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