I remember programming in Fortran 77.
I took one programming course, about 5 years after I graduated from College. It was in Basic.
When I was in College (graduated in 1970) they taught Cobal and Fortran, not much else. I have a Business management degree, only a few people specialized in that. It took punch cards to enter the programs. Not even green screen terminals.
That was back in the days of the Z80 CPU’s. Which addressed a maximum of 64K of RAM. (without bank switching)
But it worked really well. The really efficient software then were machine language stuff or carefully compiled software.
Odly, we had lots and lots of software around.
Now, we die with complexity. It is maddening. Such a waste of capacity.