JS has seen a great revival and will continue to step into the limelight. With Apple & Google pushing hard to make it extremely fast and node.js & capuccino et al there is a lot of potential.
From Turbo Pascal to Delphi. Was kind of cool with the visual GUI editing. Had to use it in University (old Professor, next year they switched to Java) to program on the blackboard. With chalk. Not kidding!
