Fortran Wiki
Myths

Fortran statements must begin at column seven.

While Fortrans up to FORTRAN 77 used fixed form layout? only, free form layout was introduced in Fortran 90 and is now nearly ubiquitous in new code.

Fortran does not have pointers.

Pointers were introduced in Fortran 90 and are actually much easier to use and understand than pointers in C.

External Links

• Fortran Myths & Disinformation Wanted on comp.lang.fortran.