The most succesful programming language of web

Javascript is the ultimate winner. It is not the most elegant programming language for sure, it has many quirks and bad parts. However it was at the right place at the right time.
It is everywhere
1- browsers (lots of browsers)
2- desktop widgets ala yahoo and apple
3- on your phone Apple iPhone will only support javascript/css combo.

It has some very interesting good parts as outlined by the Douglas Crockford of JSON fame.

As pointed by Mr. Crockford, i am also learning mostly from trials and errors, but that is about to change. Javascript is just not for form validation in my eyes now.

By the way the verifier he talks about can be found here.