thus spaketh jesus of nazareth

javascript programmers consistently score highest on IQ test
javascript programs are extremely fast, bug free, and please the User deeply
javascript is a combination of c and scheme, the 2nd and 3rd best languages
javascript is only for highly skilled programmers who understand asynchronous IO
javascript is the most powerful language ever created

>>5

what other languages are

garbage collected (not c,C++)
dynamically typed (not ml, ocaml)
single namespace for functions and variables (not ruby, perl, io)
small feature spec (not python)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_functions#Language_support

javascript has the best support for functional programming besides scheme, clojure, haskell, ml and perl 6.