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 1QZqNv-0004h6-R7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:20:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3455D1C159; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:16:08 +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 C33E11C159 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so2029806wyb.40 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:16:06 -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=6B8F1y/4v35s7o32n4lJJHKl1ftOPovE/6MWtICynh0=; b=pOpSyupFCmrve/s3HylUwfFls6ggBHNf3Cz80Rg1NwriC9Ys54bVvnOJBNbVAWSW8W F/3+O+KO+jXRFg++o9JMgvLZHe9wAdDg/JNPlrcFqh9SYZUcAOaLnZDbuFWkVhCrbuBj hGmQptKqr2/zGOHn1E6zRtoprE6+JfAnRdAzY= 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=hTzGkDgsAOWSC9Jtnd6h7IDb+eJ/TDoi6lk87aOkryYQhv9wITy3ZMFpAlwgxEPewJ tOGID4DRJrRfBtkZOI1to/D4TJkpP1ETNt4P+CCNy+0BoSrh90yBSZqhG2vWTPNiPBle cBo1nH6Vek1XXWMAdCgReplu60xZz4Tpob5wY= Received: by 10.216.202.40 with SMTP id c40mr2369638weo.58.1308860166416; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:16:06 -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 b50sm1047062wed.46.2011.06.23.13.16.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:16:05 -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 22:15:02 +0200 Message-ID: <3114537.rmpVPmE6FC@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201106232104.46043.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <2041231.8YkDbPZmLp@nazgul> <201106232104.46043.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> 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: f799bc8cbc328ed70c70411f76ff455f On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:04:45 Robin Atwood did opine thusly: > On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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 > > It's the latest thing! http://visualcobol.microfocus.com/ I see it this way: Cobol:bank::perl:me Everyone loves to bash both languages but without them absolutely nothing works right :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com