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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by slantyyz on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:36PM (#9780748)
Do you think that the name Wasabi contributes to the outrage?

Coffeescript has a similar name to Javascript, so you can quickly draw an association between the two.

The name Wasabi doesn't have an obvious connection to the VBScript that it's based on, which seems to be the cause of people talking about writing a whole new language, etc.

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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by krallja on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:48PM (#9780816)
We had a (re)naming competition for the language, and Wasabi came in second. The winner was actually Bone Crusher 3000. http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/

Thistle -> FogBasic -> BC3k -> Wasabi

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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by tptacek on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:35PM (#9781062)
See, right here you can see HN always picks the wrong things to be outraged about.
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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by Vendan on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:50PM (#9781888)
And now I'm upset you renamed it from Bone Crusher 3000. That's just an epic name!
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