Fortran must be one of the most maligned programming languages ever -- and that's saying something. FORTRAN-IV was pretty awful, admittedly, but versions starting with Fortran-77 onwards were both very useful and usable -- regardless of the opinions of academic computer scientists. And modern Fortran is very much alive and well. Although I've spent most of the last 35 years using C, C++ and Python, I have no complaints about the Fortran versions I used (a lot) way back when and still use for hobbyist purposes. C++, on the other hand ... :-) ... (although C++11 onwards is pretty decent).