[_ea1k]

I never understood the disdain for Java that I'd hear from Spolsky. It wasn't perfect, but it was certainly more cross platform than .net at the time.

[codinghorror]

I dunno, I'm with Joel on this one. Not a Java fan.

[krallja]

I was at the strategic offsite where we decided to go with .NET. Java wasn’t installed on Windows by default.

The original version of Wasabi, known as Thistle, was written in Java, by the intern in the class before Aardvark’d. It transpiled ASP to PHP.

Every intern class was named after an animal with the next consecutive letter. I don’t remember any of them except Aardvark, and I was a “B????” intern!

[blinkymach12]

From memory and a little grepping of the Weekly Kiwi archives, I found: "Project Null Terminator", Aardvark, B??, Caribou, Dingo, E??, Flying Fox, Giganotosaurus, ??