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How do you find REPL integration in Common Lisp compares with Clojure? I find myself blissfully productive in Clojure, and I wonder if it's the same for all Lisps

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Common Lisp invented the REPL, Clojure only provides a subset of it.

Have a look at, "The Interlisp Programming Environment",

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1981/04/01667317/1...

Or online demos like https://youtu.be/OBfB2MJw3qg for Symbolics.

Ultimately you can try the community versions of Allegro and LispWorks.

https://franz.com/enterprise_development_tools.lhtml

http://www.lispworks.com/

Yeah the REPL in your typical Common Lisp is much more integrated than nrepl/cider in Clojure. Things like restarts and the debugger are built with the REPL in mind.

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