Fortran was a static language, and the benefits of dynamic programming made it obsolete. For the longest time, if a computer company wanted to sell to the Feds, it had to have a Fortran compiler. And since the Federal Gub'mint was the largest purchaser at the time...
In school, Fortran dominated, but the last two years were mostly the highly structured Pascal. Period.
Never went ANYWHERE without a flow chart in my pocket.