10 Mar
2010
10 Mar
'10
11:09 p.m.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:03 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Soldering (Was: Re: HP-IB, Amigo/cs80 ... )
On 10 Mar 2010 at 17:48, Ethan Dicks wrote:
When I was at Microsoft, I noted that although we had free access to colas from both sides
of the aisle (Pepsi and Coke), Jolt was not offered. My theory: they figured we'd
drink ourselves to death by liver dysfunction. Mountain Dew was hazardous enough.... --
Ian
Coke (or Jolt!) is for Assembly and C and
FORTRAN. Pepsi is for
PASCAL (and other languages I don't like ;-) (Sugar vs Sugar-free is
target-language agnostic.) I suppose one could come up with a
suitable cola match for FORTH and other less-commonly-encountered
languages.
When Fry's opened their first electronics store in the Bay area, they
were the cheapest place to buy Jolt cola by the caselot. For a time,
there was some bizarre chocolate-flavored diet soda (Canfields) that
enjoyed a brief bit of popularity among the technoscenti. I
suspected that BASIC programmers drank it. I thought it was
revolting.