i learned FORTRAN in an accelerated tech program in 1996-ish in high school.

i used fortran recently to see how "slow" python is, i did matrix multiplies by hand in .c, and .py. Now i didn't write the fortran, the AI did, but i remember enough that i verified what it did was sane, also the other two i wrote did agree with results.

  fortran 1   unit of time
  C       1.7 unit of time
  python  2.2 unit of time

for the same matmuls.

anyhow, 1996-ish. crazy.