It was frustrating that, 30 years after Fortran 77, professors were insisting in writing in that dialect. Thank God I escaped that hell.
Edit: Since people don't understand my point - I'm well aware of the existence of newer Fortran standards. But in much of academia, the professors insisted on sticking with Fortran 77.
Apparently not. Fortran 90 standard was published 35 years ago, in 1991. But a majority of comments in this thread are about FORTRAN 77. It's like the last 35 years didn't happen at all.
I used modern Fortran in undergrad and grad research from 2011 to about 2015. I rarely ever encountered FORTRAN 77 back then, and never had to write any. I worked as an intern at NIST and LANL during that time too and it was modern Fortran there as well. At NIST, as far as I'm aware, that group had been using modern Fortran for probably a decade or more before I started in 2011.
I didn't have to write any FORTRAN 77 until 2025 in my current job when I was given a legacy code to work with.
In over a decade in academia, I found only one person writing Fortran 90 (this was in 2001). He did it because he didn't tell his advisor he was doing it.
I learned APL while most of my colleagues were angry for not learning C (or xBase, which was immediately applicable). Had the teacher chosen the commercially appealing option, those students would have never seen how different from the Pascal and Fortran they learned before could be, how conciseness was powerful, and how arrays being first-class citizens made sense.
To this day, I'm frustrated by Excel's (and almost no other spreadsheet's) inability to have a cell containing anything other than a scalar.
When people ask me which language they should learn next, I always suggest something different from what they already know. APL is interesting, Haskell, Lisp, Smalltalk, and FORTH are the ones I like to point people to. Ruby is also interesting - it'll shatter a lot of your certainties about syntax and how syntax should behave.
Thankfully I was also blessed both during my high school apprenticeship, and engineering degree, to enjoy a multitude of programming languages and environments, in similar vein to what you describe.
However, and that was the point I was making, there is a difference between being stuck in the old ways, when the professors themselves learnt them as students, and what are common practices using the programming language in modern times.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/excel-now...
Even if that were true, which I doubt, there was nothing in your comment to indicate that, and in fact it contradicted it ... if you were aware, then it's nonsensical to ask whether people have moved on. It's well known that Fortran 90 was a major advance over Fortran 77 and that of course people moved on.