Denis Bueno wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Loup Vaillant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have read quite a lot of Haskell papers, lately, and noticed that
the number 42 appeared quite often, in informal tutorials as well as
in very serious research papers. No wonder Haskell is the Answer to
The Great Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything, but I would
like to know who started this, and when.
I believe it was Douglas Adams, author of the "trilogy" "Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy". You may enjoy reading it, if you haven't.
I think Loup is aware of the hitchhiker books (see the reference to the
Great Question of ... Everything).
So unless Douglas Adams wrote some Haskell papers I am not aware of, the
original question is still open ;-)
Happy weekend...
Janis.
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Dr. Janis Voigtlaender
http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/
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