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"As I’ve often said, and as others at Netscape can confirm, I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser."[0]

I guess what you're confusing is that he disclaims that it is inspired mostly on scheme:

"I still think of it as a quickie love-child of C and Self."[0]

[0]https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

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«I’m not proud, but I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions and Self-ish (albeit singular) prototypes as the main ingredients. The Java influences, especially y2k Date bugs but also the primitive vs. object distinction (e.g., string vs. String), were unfortunate.»

So JS got ideas from Scheme, Self, and Java.

That's what I meant by "mostly". Indeed it does have influence from scheme but it is not "scheme in c clothing" as people have put it.

Yes, this could be.

I saw a talk by him this year and I don't know if I have it remembered right, but the gist was that he wasn't hired to do a Scheme, but to do a scripting language inspired by it.

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