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I believe they hired him under the impression of doing actual Scheme for the browser, but then they did the old corporate bait-and-switch on him:

"The immediate concern at Netscape was it must look like Java. People have done Algol-like syntaxes for Lisp but I didn't have time to take a Scheme core so I ended up doing it all directly and that meant I could make the same mistakes that others make."

http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2009/11/coders-at-work-br...