This post is a collection of quotes about Fortran (initially released in 1957). There are 5 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
1. "Successive versions have added support for structured programming and processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and generic programming (Fortran 90), High Performance Fortran (Fortran 95), object-oriented programming (Fortran 2003), concurrent programming (Fortran 2008), and native parallel computing capabilities (Coarray Fortran 2008/2018)." (Wikipedia: Fortran, 1.16.23 UTC 09:04)
2. "[Fortran] is the primary language for some of the most intensive super-computing tasks, such as in astronomy, climate modeling, computational chemistry, computational economics, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, data analysis, hydrological modeling, numerical linear algebra and numerical libraries (LAPACK, IMSL and NAG), optimization, satellite simulation, structural engineering and weather prediction." (Wikipedia: Fortran, 1.16.23 UTC 09:04)
3. "In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more practical alternative to assembly language for programming their IBM 704 mainframe computer." (Wikipedia: Fortran, 1.16.23 UTC 09:04)
4. "Portability was a problem in the early days because there was no agreed upon standard - not even IBM's reference manual - computer companies vied to differentiate their offerings from others by providing incompatible features." (Wikipedia: Fortran, 1.16.23 UTC 09:04)
5. "...facilities for inter-operation with C were added to Fortran 2003 and enhanced by the ISO/IEC technical specification 29113, which was incorporated into Fortran 2018 to allow more flexible interoperation with other programming languages." (Wikipedia: Fortran, 1.16.23 UTC 09:04)
