[notacoward]

This makes me think of the many programmers who started with BASIC on the early 6502/Z80 systems. BASIC of that era was a truly atrocious language (it got better later) but many of those people went on to learn better tools and make the computing world we know today. The original primitive tool served its purpose, which was largely to get people excited about the possibility of shaping their own experience instead of just consuming prepackaged applications. AFAICT Lil is a far better language than early BASIC, and that's enough.