FORTRAN is pretty easy to learn. One of my first programming gigs was, basically, writing a CGI program to present scientific reports on an OpenVMS system that

FORTRAN is pretty easy to learn. One of my first programming gigs was, basically, writing a CGI program to present scientific reports on an OpenVMS system that used Apache. I had zero to do with the setup and FORTRAN was used because they had license for that compiler. This was the late 90s and it was a FORTRAN 90 compiler. It was fairly easy to learn the language and port the C/Perl/TCL CGI things I normally did. In fact, I ended up writing library much like Don Libes cgi.tcl that was somewhat popular back then. Surprisingly one of my favorite data projects (https://retrosheet.org https://retrosheet.org) has tools that will output data in a format that makes it really easy to read in FORTRAN. So, I still use it quite a bit to do some heavy lifting with my baseball research.