[Banana699]

Fortran isn't an array language at all, really. Maybe some features of the array languages style are super-imposed atop it with parallizing extensions, dialects, or whatnot; but it's style has always been and still is to write explicit loops and mutate state left and right. John Backus in his famous 1977 turing award speech explicitly named it a representative of the "fat weak" languages he talked of and said it was a thin veneer over assembly, he based his fictional FP language on APL instead.

Maybe grandparent meant it has the same _application_ as array languages, in that its only surviving kingdom is scientific computing where devouring gargantuan arrays of numerics is the only thing that matters, unlike C or C++ that are much more widely used. Maybe that's why it has a long history of being parallized with various tools and runtimes _despite_ its inherent imperativeness. (I don't remember where I heard this, but somebody wrote an analyzer to analyze some Fortran programmes in the 90s and found that over 80%/90% of Fortran programmes are spent doing variations of map, filter and reduce. So it's an extremely imperative language against its intended use. Maybe I will post a link in an edit when I find the source of the claim)

[Bostonian]

Fortran has had built-in array operations since the Fortran 90 standard. If X and Y are scalars or arrays of the same shape, you can X+Y, X*Y, exp(X), sin(X) etc. You can define your own elemental functions that act on both scalars and arrays of any rank. I still write loops when programming in Fortran 95 but less often than in Fortran 77. So I think modern Fortran is an array language.