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Where I worked we had a similar issue. We got on the Matlab bus early on, and have written and validated a vast amount of code in proprietary toolboxes. These allow us to take data from rigs, test equipment, cars and labs, and simulations, and process it in the exact same way which makes correlation much easier. Obviously we'd have liked to stop paying the Matlab tax, and switch to Python, which most young engineers are familiar with. But the Matlab tax, while significant, is peanuts compared with our other software licenses, and many would blub if we lost Simulink. Our Tier 1s sometimes use it to give us black or gray box models to plug into our sims.

Incidentally the last time I needed to write Fortran was 2005, through the 80s I was using it quite a lot.

My first job was programming in RPG/ILE. Started out in the old column based syntax and then gradually started using a more C like syntax (I do not recall if it had a name…).
Due to that experience I was later interviewed for a COBOL position and I was surprised at how quickly that language made sense to me when I did some research into it.