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

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Brendan Eich was originally hired to implement Scheme in the Netscape browser, but his superiors eventually told him to make it more Java-like so they could market it on Java's popularity with the name Javascript. Eich's intention was to make it a Scheme with Java syntax, but he sorta failed in that department. I don't even think the original implementation was tail call optimized.