Fortran Bug Urban Legend (www-users.york.ac.uk)

Fact-checking in the era of AI disinformation is going to be truly Sisyphean.

I think people confuse the Fortran bug that didn't lose a rocket with the Ada bug that did lose a rocket (the Ariane 5), like how people thinking Nelson Mandela died in prison in the '80s probably got mixed up with Steve Biko.