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He also wrote the best book for JavaScript, JavaScript: The Good Parts.
JS is pretty bad, but it's so ubiquitous now that I don't know if anyone can create a replacement with enough traction for one of the big browsers to start supporting it.
It will happen eventually. Look at FORTRAN, or COBOL, or BASIC, or Pascal, or even Objective-C.