If I'm not mistaken, Brendan Eich wanted Scheme to be the language of the browser. We ended up with JavaScript because Netscape pushed the whole "make it look l

If I'm not mistaken, Brendan Eich wanted Scheme to be the language of the browser. We ended up with JavaScript because Netscape pushed the whole "make it look like Java" agenda. We still got first-class functions out of it. But we also inherited a direct port of Java's Date class. *Edit Netscape, not Sun