why fortran mailing list?

[B. Estrade]

On Tuesday, 9 July 2013, Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:24:12PM -0400, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> > Fortran is pretty much a standard in the scientific world and I for
> > one have been quite upset about the fact that I'm constantly forced
> > away from FreeBSD for such things. Needless to say I was quite
> > surprised that a list was created specifically for Fortran discussion,
> > but I'm also very excited to see the level of interest in the
> > community.
> >
>
> Please, don't top-post, it looses context.  In fact, I've
> deleted all of the previous context. :-)
>
> Not sure why you're forced away from FreeBSD because of
> Fortran.  gfortran has been a part of GCC since 2005.
> Although the first year or two of gfortran's life saw a
> large number of bugsi and patches, since gcc 4.4,x ori
> 4.5.x, she's been a very good compiler.
>
>
gfortran had not been part of base gcc for some time, and now that gcc is
out altogether you lose even basic OpenMP support to clang. OpenMP on
FreeBSD is the primary reason for my interest here.

Brett

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