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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

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.
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!