Aye, I did cherry pick a bit, sorry about that. But still, if you go to Brendan Eich's wiki page [0], it says that he wanted to put Scheme in the browser, but was commissioned to create a language that resembled Java instead. I guess he ended up doing a little bit of both :)
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_JavaS...