FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.