Fortran easy to use? Ugh.
I just used a Fortan 95 compiler for a program this year. Fortran isn't quite dead yet. :-)
Better than Assembler.
Worse yet, the very early PDP11s had 16 toggle switches to program at the 16-bit register level.
Old Star Trek episodes used them because the indicator lights above the switches would blink as each instruction was executed. Flashing lights preceded spinning tape drives to let the viewer know it was a computer.