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

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:35:23PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:
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

Not irrelevant - we have a lot of things in the base system due to
history and tradition. FORTRAN is one of them.

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