The world's most misunderstood programming language

I really enjoyed reading this post by Douglas Crockford, 'The world's most misunderstood programming language'. I have always dismissed JavaScript as a kind of toy language that I've more suffered than enjoyed working with. I never realised it was so powerfull, probably for all the reasons that Mr Crockford enumerates in his article. I've been very interested in object oriented programming for a long time now, but I'd never heard of stuff like 'closures', 'lamda expressions' or 'functional programming' until recently. JavaScript it turns out is like 'Lisp in C syntax' with all those cool features. I guess this is all bourne out by the current interest in AJAX and more powerfull browser based apps.