Given the domain name I was hoping they'd first implement a Lisp in 12 lines of Javascript, and then implement the new language in that lisp, that would've been

Given the domain name I was hoping they'd first implement a Lisp in 12 lines of Javascript, and then implement the new language in that lisp, that would've been an interesting tutorial. I get that it's a beginners tutorial and they have some constraints, but it starts off with "let's dream up a language" and then presents a super standard language, it's basically just Javascript with obligatory semicolons..