'“We wanted to create a programming environment that doesn’t require every researcher to be a computer scientist,”' For the more than 60 years it has existed,

'“We wanted to create a programming environment that doesn’t require every researcher to be a computer scientist,”' For the more than 60 years it has existed, most Fortran programmers have not been computer scientists. I wish the article had explained why the designers of the language are starting from scratch rather than building on Fortran, in particular Fortran 2008+, which introduced coarrays for parallel programming.