I think a lot of people assume Fortran == FORTRAN 77, which is a terrible language without even full support for structured programming and with an annoying fix

I think a lot of people assume Fortran == FORTRAN 77, which is a terrible language without even full support for structured programming and with an annoying fixed-field syntax. There are good reasons to hate on it. Most Fortran hate is actually F77 hate. Fortran 90, on the other hand, is basically C with a different syntax. F90 (and newer: F95, F03, F08) really isn't a worse language than C, and there's no reason to hate on it when you wouldn't hate on C, but a lot of people don't know it exists because they equate Fortran with F77.