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

Javascript V8
  15x faster than Perl
  2x faster than Go
  11x faster than Lua
  12x faster than Python
  8x faster than Ruby

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=perl