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

On Friday 26 May 2006 23:26, Lyndon Nerenberg 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 ;-)
I don't personally use Fortran, but I know a lot of engineers that do.
Though they use a much more recent version than Fortran 77. I'd vote
for removing it if it will make the import easier, but one or more
Fortran compilers in the ports would need to be on the disc1 install
ISO.

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Anish Mistry

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