I come from a C++/C/Java background and also always disliked Javascript. It still has its warts sure, but the book "Javascript the Good Parts" really opened my

I come from a C++/C/Java background and also always disliked Javascript. It still has its warts sure, but the book "Javascript the Good Parts" really opened my eyes. I liked programming lisp in school quite a bit, and the idea of just treat Javascript like a lisp and program it in this specific way was really enlightening. Prior to that I was either shoe horning it in to a java model, or building on some legacy JS that didn't really have a methodology to it.