I appreciated them at the time I encountered them (mid-2000s), but they were definitely a bit cringe in their frequency and shamelessness. I wonder if younger people even know Monty Python anymore - by my time, I think people had mostly forgotten about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, even if 42 survived.

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culebron21 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

As a foreigner I hadn't known Monty Python when I started learning the language and reading the docs, and I haven't noticed any of those. I guess they came across as just noise.

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edoceo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The kids these days have factored 42 to 6,7 (said with some inflection and hand waving)

	▲	GPerson an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Did you come up with that? If so, bravo!

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rightbyte 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dude it is not cringe. It is silly.

Pretending to be a all serius grown ups language is cringe.

	▲	sph an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I agree but don’t forget that the average programmer nowadays is a strait-laced corporate entity, whose personality is Node.js stickers on a macbook, like everybody else in their team. They forget that Perl and co. were written by people that had one too many tabs of LSD in the 70s, sporting long hair and a ponytail.