I've been musing over some of these same ideas since reading Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts over Christmas break. He certainly makes a strong case for J

I've been musing over some of these same ideas since reading Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts over Christmas break. He certainly makes a strong case for Javascript that it's better to become intimately acquainted with a sensible, well-designed, and mostly gotcha-free subset of the language rather than go crawling into its margins in pursuit of elegance.