I, otoh, never really liked it (except, perhaps, in comparison to the hand-punched perforated-card machine code I started with on the Wang 360), and count myself fortunate that I wrote far more FORTRAN for my school coursework than in the 4 decades that followed.
It was a great accomplishment at the time, but so was the Model T. I wouldn't choose either of them to do anything serious today.
I actually found this article (linked from that one) more interesting.