Considering Wasabi exists because Joel made the business decision that 1) Languages such as Python and Ruby are too 'slow' for whatever he was trying to do (yet again programmers making religious decisions without presenting evidence of what 'slow' is in real cases) and 2) He didn't want to have engineers install .NET or Java or PHP or something on some random off chance that they didn't have those utilities available.

This was 2001. So first off note that he didn't say something like 'well, .NET is way too new and the Java ecosystem has been sucking complete shit', or something reasonable and defendable.

Next, he espouses on how these 'weirdo' languages like LISP, Ruby or Python would be impossible to find programmers. But he created his own fucking batshit language that literally nobody else in the world uses.

Lastly, Wasabi is supposedly a superset dialect of VBScript. I don't know, I cant find any examples anywhere because the only place Wasabi is used is at FogCreek. But still, VBScript is a mess of a language that Microsoft has been scrambling to get away from since NT4. Then he has a summer intern, who has no experience in lexical design, create a compiler that will translate Wasabi generated VBScript into PHP, the most ill-designed, inconsistent language ever created. It's all because he didn't want 'engineers to install Java or PHP on Windows (which has been dead simple since the 1990s)' and he couldn't invest resources into some upcoming technology like Python, Ruby, or something else.

He's completely, positively insane. He has the logic train of a creationist, one statement completely contradicts the next thing. He had good ideas and then turned into the George Lucas of software, completely disconnected and absolutely fucking batshit.