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- Another random, nonsensical, and unrelated claim that the people Atlantis spoke gibberish. Why this would be the case, and more importantly why this would be funny is left as an exercise to the reader, I suppose. The article then pulls off its first successful joke several paragraphs too late by claiming that Indians can understand C++ better than their own language, possibly because Indians are overachievers and practically computers unto themselves. This is humor. Not very clever or original humor, but at least, again several paragraphs in, we've hit on some sort of humor. Is it enough to save the article? Stay tuned.
- The first several paragraphs open the article with the concept that, in short, C++ is needlessly complicated. An interesting concept but nonetheless not terribly developed as the introduction essentially says "C++ is sooo crazy" over and over again. At this point, the infobox catches my eye, which does not amuse me either, as again I cannot make sense of it enough to understand your jokes. The "paradigm" is understandable at least - another repetition of the aforementioned concept. There are several "programming languages" here that are completely made up and nonsensical and as such I do not understand their purpose. Are they supposed to be funny? Clever? Random? It remains a mystery.
- Again the concept that C++ is over-complicated is relentlessly repeated, this time in the manner of a list with a few random elements again thrown in. Said concept is approximately as amusing the first six times it was stated, that is to say, not at all. A bit of mock code makes its appearance, making no sense and having only a feeble connection to the surrounding text. It somehow achieves the balance of not looking much like code while at the same time not making much sense to a human being either. The Atlantian/gibberish connection is then repeated, adding nothing further to this section.
- The "Hello World" code involves sexual reproduction for, once again, unexplained reasons, and because they are unexplained they have no reason at all to be funny.
- The next section makes the claim that C++ was developed as Cold War weaponry, which somewhat contradicts the Atlantian/gibberish connection mentioned earlier. Some struct/class jokes are thrown in that don't make any sense to people without a working knowledge of the history of C++, and honestly I can't think of a subject I'd like to look up less than the history of a programming language, so I'm going to pass over that.
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