2008/2/1, Christopher L Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Loup, > > This is not unique to the Haskell community. I suspect the arbitrary > constant 42 has been appearing unexplained in research papers for as > long as there have been computer scientists who were sci-fi geeks > (absolutely no offense intended to geeks ;-). It would be very > difficult indeed to figure out who did this first, without some highly > dedicated library research.
I suspected this. Just that I didn't noticed 42 but in Haskell papers. Maybe this is just a bias due to my recent interests. I should check some C/C++/Lisp/Ocaml papers. About the library search, Maybe it is possible to try a giant "grep" on all papers in ACM Portal, or CiteSeer? Loup _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
