Fortran vs. C for numerical work

[Ken Olstad]

paco at rice.edu (Paul Havlak) writes:
>   To paraphrase Jack Schwartz: 
>   "We don't know what the numerical programming language of the year 2000
>   will be called, but it will look like Fortran."
>

wvenable at spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
>
> "We don't know what the numerical programming language of the year 2000
>  will look like, but it will be called Fortran."
>

I've always heard it closer to the latter, but attributed to Seymour
Cray.  Does anybody here really know where this came from?

-Ken
olstad at msc.edu