It seems (according to one guru, but coming from this source, it’s a left-handed compliment) that JavaScript is finally popular. To me, a nerd from a tender age, this is something between a curse and a joke. (See if you are in my camp: isn’t the green chick hotter?) Brendan Eich convinced his pointy-haired boss at Netscape that the Navigator browser should have its own scripting language, and that