On 3 Jun 2015, at 12:56, Ludovic Brenta <[email protected]> wrote:

> Simon Wright wrote:
>>>>     if A = 42 or B = 42 then
>>>>       raise Constraint_Error;
>>> 
>>> :) an anti-ultimate-answer? That makes _2_ scifi references
>>> in an Ada newsgroup in one day :).
>> 
>> Actually to the Hacker’s Dictionary, in
>> http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_33.html :-)
> 
> No, *that*'s a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :)
> If you don't know that, you're not a True Hacker :)

:blush: I’ve never been able to get started with Douglas Adams’s work (what a 
confession), so my primary reference for 42 is indeed the Jargon File.


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