Douglas Crockford himself says so !
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html
I have been working with JS only for the past few months, with jQuery and ExtJS. Soon will get to work on Secha Touch.
I find Javascript to be highly enlightening.. What is your opinion ?
Crockford himself says that the language is not without its flaws. What flaws bother you the most ? How do you overcome them ?
Because Brendan Eich (who created JavaScript) wanted to implement Lisp in the browser, but his boss told him to do something more like Java. And that having Java in the name would be good too! So he disguised his Lisp-like language in a Java-shroud.