In my visualforce page, I have an array:

var availableTags = [
			"ActionScript",
			"AppleScript",
			"Asp",
			"BASIC",
			"C",
			"C++",
			"Clojure",
			"COBOL",
			"ColdFusion",
			"Erlang",
			"Fortran",
			"Groovy",
			"Haskell",
			"Java",
			"JavaScript",
			"Lisp",
			"Perl",
			"PHP",
			"Python",
			"Ruby",
			"Scala",
			"Scheme"
		];
		

 How can I populate this array with data from salesforce?

I read on the boards that this would work:

availableTags = "{!designations}";

 But it doesnt work. My data is not getting into the javascript array.

I tried this with the repeat tag as mentioned Here

but still no good.

Shouldn't this be simple?