I program with C for many years. All I can say I hadn’t laughed that much for quit awhile. I don’t know if it is real or a joke(maybe these old men- I still consider them genius- missed their childhood and wanted to create funniest joke about C). I don’t know about other languages so I cannot compare C with languages like pascal,…. I think one of the most prominent features of C is to combine efficiency of low level languages by its ability to use different data types with ease of high level languages . when I look at 27 original keywords of C, I see how clever they are defined.
Almost all of the beautiful computer world today has been created with them. How it can be a hoax? All I can say I will continue using C even if this story is true. Because I enjoy C!
Anyway thank you very much Andy, I needed that laugh.

Sam