From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZpta-0001JN-8U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:48:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97E7F1C073; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8C91C073 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so2010297wyb.40 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:44:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=uV0H0soGjG44Z4HxCfUfcYCej65VtcPIw7zXrLhAYiQ=; b=GWDYGR4JXx8Nu/C715nTxhPkWPiG8snKCaBzjBuAkU/KlSULA/fyjvuGjDXqERZKD7 Mmi2sw9egrxbgC1u6pt4XyUFn5394ZOS9wZSeP4Fu6P4M0SnDDrHP+7qSJokLVSFF/9b 3SAl7zdbIWw3ioMpYETykE2V5E31P7UBuFu84= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=VXcui1VHQnakR+169GvuTPlfeiwwRrWBhUk9YOh9KvI/TXws0ychLvaIBMt3QoIM1x SS+99nmfjna3GlAkEF+ahD/lGbHyFEW3EzVBJa5TCXTDVfV8vtftbaXQWNuAqGpPKxaR bixnYk4JdA045EpgFIaKwcoOIDuRFZMAJ4+nQ= Received: by 10.216.60.74 with SMTP id t52mr2508959wec.30.1308858278115; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b50sm1036090wed.22.2011.06.23.12.44.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:44:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:43:33 +0200 Message-ID: <2041231.8YkDbPZmLp@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110623191608.1696dbc1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <4E0376AE.3080905@coolmail.se> <20110623191608.1696dbc1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cf5f1818f7b4e4eec10826e47ac5821f On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote: > > It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain > > niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern" > > languages doesn't cut it... :-) > > Or so the Fortran programmers with jobs to protect will tell you... > > You'll be telling us there's still a place for Cobol next :-O Of course there's a place for Cobol, a classic one is in the bank my gf does data warehousing at. There's not a single soul in the entire bank that is willing to sign off on a project to replace the Cobol that has run justfinethanksverymuch for 25+ years -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com