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The 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.

You "just" created something on Wikipedia and it hasn't been removed, yet? I thought this is impossible.

I think the hostility you describe only happens on articles that have dedicated maintainers.

I bet there's a social anthropology or psychology paper somewhere in there explaining how for some people this isn't obvious.

Pretty easy to discern that it is fictional, no need to refute anything.

We 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