I highly doubt that I'll ever use FORTRAN directly or indirectly.   If it's
not used by a vast majority, it should be optional...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Smith <[email protected]>
To: Mark Murray <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Steve Kargl
<[email protected]>; [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: removing f2c from base distribution


>> "David O'Brien" wrote:
>> > I've got a Bmaked contribified version of EGCS, but didn't do g77.  So
>> > maybe a consensus should be made what to do about FORTRAN in the base
>> > system.
>>
>> If you are collecting votes, please add mine; I feel quite strongly
>> (knowing the scientists that I do that use Fortran) that it _should_
>> be in the base system. Please include it.
>
>We've already established that it doesn't need to be in the base system.
>Your scientist friends are probably already going to be installing
>their favorite text editors; it's no harder to install the Fortran
>support.



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