Modern FORTRAN looks more like Matlab than FORTRAN 77. The syntax has been completely overhauled since at least ‘95.

For a while I was translating my Matlab codes to FORTRAN; it was surprisingly easy. But I was being too naive with array resizings in Matlab and most of the speed gain (which was like 2-3 orders of magnitude) could be achieved in Matlab itself by preallocating memory.

To this day I have the nervous tick of initializing arrays with zeros even in numpy.