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This made me smile given Python's love of Monty Python references - the cheese shop etc.

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.

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.

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

Did you come up with that? If so, bravo!

6-7? No, my kid says it about a thousand time a day. Then, for some unknown reason they follow it with 41! WTF! I've shouted 42! many times and have tried to inform the child of the significant cultural and scientific importance of 42. Which, IIRC, factors to 2,3,7.

67 and 41 are the TikTok / Gen Z speech.

67 stands for «whatever», «I don't care», or, cyclically, 67!

41 is an expression of shock or disbelief – «that's wild», «no way» and stuff like that.

> 41!

That’s a very big number!

Dude it is not cringe. It is silly.

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

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.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Larry Wall, a devout evangelical Christian and the child of a pastor, was not turning on, tuning in, or dropping out in the 1970s.

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