That's only because the context has been shifted from the more general news of CNN to the tech and developer oriented news of HN. Within the original context of CNN no one would think it's about programming languages. They don't post stories like that. The CNN headline writer clearly wasn't trying to trick anyone.
Kudos to wowsig if it was submitted as a joke though. That'd be quite clever.
Kudos to wowsig if it was submitted as a joke though. That'd be quite clever.