Google "brendan eich javascript scheme". Result #1 is from Brendan Eich's website: I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the brow

Google "brendan eich javascript scheme". Result #1 is from Brendan Eich's website: I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser... I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions and Self-ish (albeit singular) prototypes as the main ingredients. https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/ https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/ So "JS=Scheme" is not very crazy. Maybe it oversimplifies. But it's not baseless. And it's short.