To be fair, I found Fortran 77 to have the easiest learning curve of any language I've had to pick up. It only required about 2-3 hours of reading, plus a litt

To be fair, I found Fortran 77 to have the easiest learning curve of any language I've had to pick up. It only required about 2-3 hours of reading, plus a little more Googling to understand the challenges of having it interact with C++ code.