Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

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.


-Kip



On 5/26/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 26, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> Agreed, who the hell still uses Fortran?

I have great gobs of RF design and analysis code that is written in
F77 (and 66 for that matter). In the RF engineering field the
Fortran versions of Spice and friends are still quite popular. And I
know more than a handful of physicists who will never write a line of
C code, and nor should they, since their existing Fortran tools are
perfectly viable. A lot of these people rely on the system shipping
a Fortran compiler -- they're scientists, not sysadmins. And believe
me ... there IS a difference! (Now the physics guys would be tickled
pink if the system compiler was upgraded to F95 or better ;-)

--lyndon
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