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 1QZngD-0001qx-KJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:27:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C4481C078; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.alltele.net (m1.alltele.net [85.30.0.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838801C078 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([87.227.57.71]) by smtp.alltele.net (IceWarp 10.3.1 RC1) with ESMTP id GXU18857 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4E0376AE.3080905@coolmail.se> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110510 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <4E01CF99.1070109@gmail.com> <4E01EF3F.8040800@gmail.com> <4E020BA4.50201@gmail.com> <4E021F1A.4080304@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.27 required=7.00 tests=LOCALPART_IN_SUBJECT=1.56,RATWARE_RCVD_BONUS_SPC=1.00,MR_NOT_ATTRIBUTED_IP=0.20,SMILEY=-0.50,NO_RDNS2=0.01,MR_DIFF_MID=1.00 version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (1.1) on smtp.alltele.net X-CTCH: RefID="str=0001.0A0B0202.4E0376AF.00E0,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0"; Spam="Unknown"; VOD="Unknown" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c8792c1f7b2c4b69511432e19f21edd0 On 2011-06-22 19:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. Except > that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die because > people still programming in it are too lazy to learn a proper, more > modern language :-P 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... :-) Best regards Peter K