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"When [Brendan Eich] was being interviewed [at Netscape], he told them that he would like to write a Scheme interpreter, and they said “Wow, that’s great, that’s just the kind of thing we’re thinking of”. So they hired him, but before he started work, they found out what scheme was, and when he got there, they told him “Don’t do Scheme, we want something that people are going to like, make it look like Java or something”."