I've completed a simular "conversion" myself recently. After reading "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and with the arrival of things like Node.js I have come over

I've completed a simular "conversion" myself recently. After reading "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and with the arrival of things like Node.js I have come over from being a staunch "C as a first language" programmer to learning to not only accept JavaScript, but to embrace it, and the power that comes from becoming proficient in the only programming language understood by both the web browser and server.