The opposite, in fact. My professor talked about the amazing things he did with Fortran. Then I had to learn it in order to find the bugs. I'd never use it by choice.
I know of 4 major languages created in the 1950's: Lisp, Algol, Fortran, and Cobol. Lisp and Algol were brilliantly designed, years ahead of their time, and have inspired nearly every programming language since then. Fortran and Cobol not only look like evolutionary dead ends in hindsight, but they weren't pleasant to use even when they were popular.
There's a reason we still see Lisp posts on HN almost every day, and very rarely Fortran posts.
I know of 4 major languages created in the 1950's: Lisp, Algol, Fortran, and Cobol. Lisp and Algol were brilliantly designed, years ahead of their time, and have inspired nearly every programming language since then. Fortran and Cobol not only look like evolutionary dead ends in hindsight, but they weren't pleasant to use even when they were popular.
There's a reason we still see Lisp posts on HN almost every day, and very rarely Fortran posts.