> "Lovecraftian hieroglyphics of Fortran" <-- the author never programmed in Perl, I presume.
Or in Fortran, it's a relatively verbose language from what I remember of it (that said, I learned Fortran 90/95, so maybe the older variants were worse)
Modern Fortran (2008/2018) syntax is a bliss. You would almost not notice if your are coding in MATLAB or Fortran with the advantage of your code being orders of magnitude faster in Fortran. Those who criticize the syntax of Fortran have probably not learned anything beyond F77, or at best F90.
Or in Fortran, it's a relatively verbose language from what I remember of it (that said, I learned Fortran 90/95, so maybe the older variants were worse)