On 5/26/06, Jonathan Noack <noackjr_at_alumni.rice.edu> wrote: > On 05/27/06 00:05, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > On May 26, 2006, at 8:35 PM, 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. > > > > My gut feeling is that you just argued for moving the C compiler to > > ports, too :-( > > You're forgetting that the kernel and most of userland are written in C. > The C compiler isn't going anywhere... > > -Jonathan > > -- > Jonathan Noack | noackjr_at_alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 > I dunno. If you follow this to its logical conclusion, since most people don't compile anything, there's no reason for *any* compiler to be in the base system. (removes tongue from cheek)Received on Sat May 27 2006 - 04:37:34 UTC
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