[tzumaoli]

When Fortran came out, I don't think a lot of people yelled at the assembly programmers and told them "learn Fortran or be replaced".

[pklausler]

If the assembly programmers were struggling with correctly optimizing loops for optimal performance on several distinct target machines, I would hope that their management would want them to try this new Fortran thing and see how well it worked. (And it did, and it enabled new companies like CDC to win customers from IBM.)