On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > > A lot of people use a lot of things out of ports. Why should Fortran > > > > be different? > > > > > > Because Berkeley Unix has /always/ included a FORTRAN compiler. > > > > And they have /always/ included games. Next issue.
Well, there's a little more to this argument. I'm not saying I'm necessarily in favor *myself* of programming in fortran (I like going to the dentist a whole lot more) but to many people, having a fortran compiler that works in FreeBSD is something of a badge of authenticity. Most of these folks are heavy research types, but it's certainly true that having the compiler at least *did* increase FreeBSD's reputation to some degree. I'm not sure if this argument is worth pushing anymore, because FreeBSD's stability and usefulness has become much more well known, but it did contribute at some point, and I think that is the idea that Daniel was trying to convey. Right? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
