LabVIEW is cool. National Instruments, Agilent are hard to beat for measurement apps.
Object Oriented Fortran looks good, the Object Oriented features are great.
The version numbers are like Fortran 95, Fortran 2000, or something.
g95 is the name of the compiler.
If C++ gets you upset, try an Object Oriented version of Fortran.
It allows the programmer to produce a true interface within code and produce
compiled modules for code reuse. Unfortunately, one would have to combine
it with something else for a GUI. It can be combined with Octave to do
matrix math and produce plots.
After you try Object Oriented Fortran, Fortran IV and Fortran 77 code
looks like a different language.....