""If we had any other major language in the browser, even c++, it would have died long, long ago. We wouldn't even be talking about it today."" To say somethin

""If we had any other major language in the browser, even c++, it would have died long, long ago. We wouldn't even be talking about it today."" To say something like that, you must clearly not understand the premise of the language. Javascript is not a play language - it's a very powerful hybrid of Scheme and Self, with a C-like syntax, which makes it easier for most people to get started with. Using functional programming paradigms, rather than class based ones, makes Javascript scale very well to large applications.