If I could up-vote recursively until the Inter-tubes segfaulted, I would on that link you provided.
A couple quotable lines from the article I have to throw out there are:
> One day, Netscape woke up from a truly epic bender to discover it had jammed a scripting language onto the web and millions of people were using it. Literally none of them liked it. Not one.
> Lots of programmers believe JavaScript is “basically” Scheme because it gives them something they want to believe: that the language they choose to use has some cachet and they don’t have to feel bad about it anymore.
Lots of languages claim they are Scheme or Lisp dialects (JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Lua and others) in order to boost their popularity even though they have none of Lisp's unique features but just the general features you would expect to find in any dynamically typed languages.
A couple quotable lines from the article I have to throw out there are:
> One day, Netscape woke up from a truly epic bender to discover it had jammed a scripting language onto the web and millions of people were using it. Literally none of them liked it. Not one.
> Lots of programmers believe JavaScript is “basically” Scheme because it gives them something they want to believe: that the language they choose to use has some cachet and they don’t have to feel bad about it anymore.