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To simplify the task of refuting this hoax once again every time it resurfaces, I just created a new subsection on Stroustrup wikipedia article about it: https:
by marcodiego 5y ago
To simplify the task of refuting this hoax once again every time it resurfaces, I just created a new subsection on Stroustrup wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup#The_recurrent_rumor_about_why_C++_was_developed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup#The_recurren...
- bborud 5y agoI bet there's a social anthropology or psychology paper somewhere in there explaining how for some people this isn't obvious.
- spfzero 5y agoPretty easy to discern that it is fictional, no need to refute anything.
- handoflixue 5y agoWe have "Poe's Law"; we've seen numerous people being caught making overly-candid remarks in various contexts; numerous people caught posting to main instead of their sock-puppet... and that's before we get in to the difficulty of recognizing satire when it's not your native language, etc. We know people say absurd things, so there is absolutely a need to clearly mark satire/humor
- scj 5y agoThe word hoax isn't correct. This is satire. A parody based on Stroustrup's many defenses of C++. It makes me laugh every time I read it. Some day, hopefully many years from now, I suspect someone will write "Bjarne's Deathbed Confession" with the exact same premise, just updated.
- 2-718-281-828 5y agoYou "just" created something on Wikipedia and it hasn't been removed, yet? I thought this is impossible.
- marcodiego 5y agoI think the hostility you describe only happens on articles that have dedicated maintainers.