Q: [...] Was the ES4 proposal your chance to show the world that,
"Look, I'm a really smart guy and JavaScript is a really good
language"?

A: No, I don't think so.  I know Doug [Crockford] may think that.
I don't think Doug knows me that well, but the thing is, I'm not
really looking for respect, especially from the Java-heads or the
trailing edge.

		-- Brendan Eich to Peter Seibel,
		   "Coders at Work" p. 143