[jtlienwis]

Do a Google search on "spider webs on caffeine". Over my long career as a programmer, I went from looking at caffeinated beverages as an aid to getting things done, to the discovery that I made far more programming errors under the influence of caffeine. I cut out my addiction to coke and pepsi and watched my productivity soar. Now, a new successful software company near my home town has built a new building, and the newspaper account describes the office spaces that have free access to Monster type drinks etc. I just wonder how this myth of "programming fluids" for programmers got started and why no one has actually studied it.

[jasonm23]

Years ago, when Jolt Cola was released, the media trope of caffeinated programming fuels began in earnest. Of course this was subsequently bolstered by naming two popular programming languages Java and JavaScript in the 1990s.

(Java, for the uninitiated is a common word for coffee.)

The naming of Cocoa, was also a sarcastic pun on the whole Coffee thing.

We had CoffeeScript a few years ago...

Anyway it's cues like this which help prop up them meme of Coffee/Caffeine == programmer fuel. With that sort of cultural baggage it's neither here nor there whether there's been any studies...

It's simply lore, and holds about as much validity as the beard length gag.