Frankly, FORTRAN is not that bad. It's not worse than PL/SQL or ADA. Yes all are verbose but that's not the issue, although I wish some of these get a revision

Frankly, FORTRAN is not that bad. It's not worse than PL/SQL or ADA. Yes all are verbose but that's not the issue, although I wish some of these get a revision of their syntax, no question. Often the issue is the lack of IDE,code quality tools,libraries,support for string encoding schemes, linters and co, everything that is taken for granted in modern languages with a broader appeal. Actually, newer programmers are rediscovering these languages because they actually scale very well as an alternative to C++.