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Slug Cola - Losing Big Is Easy

What makes a programming language successful?

An humorous perspective on A Nickel's Worth.

By Denis Bredelet -jido at 2008-09-18 15:48 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 5200 reads

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So that's why brainfuck isn't used more often!

:)

Of course, there's more to marketing than picking a cool name.

One wonders if Slug Cola ever contained cocaine as an ingredient.

By Scott Johnson at Thu, 2008-09-18 22:30 | login or register to post comments

The Volkswagon Lisp

I have often thought the same, but I wonder whether a good name is a cause for a success, or just a correlation.

The above led me to The Volkswagon Lisp, which I presume is an LtU classic, but I hadn't seen it before. The second image down is brilliant.

By Morris Johns at Fri, 2008-09-19 03:55 | login or register to post comments

I don't recall seeing this

I don't recall seeing this before. Thanks!

By Ehud Lamm at Fri, 2008-09-19 04:19 | login or register to post comments