/tags/c/ Recent content in C on A Nickel's Worth Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/losing-big-is-easy/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/losing-big-is-easy/ What’s the connection between soda and the failure of programming languages? I would have thought “zero” had I not recently stumbled across a wikipedia article about a little-known predecessor of Coca-Cola. As it turns out, in 1879, a scrappy Norwegian immigrant named Jan Kjarti (who, incidentally, also coined the term “artificial sweetener”) started a soda company. His company, Slug Cola (the motto was “you’ll love to Slug it down!”), produced a soda that cost a little more than Coke but which actually tasted much better (note that it didn’t actually use artificial sweetener, either).