Re: [Haskell-cafe] Who started 42, and when?

Denis Bueno wrote:

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Loup Vaillant wrote:

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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. -- Dr. Janis Voigtlaender http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/ mailto:voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de