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by BrendanEich 4358 days ago
> In fact Brendan Eich has stated that his intention was to create Scheme for the browser

No. Read https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/. "Come to Netscape, do Scheme in the browser!" was the bait. When I got to Netscape, it "had to look like Java". And given timing both internal and due to MS coming after Netscape, it had to be done really, really quickly.

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