> I can see the frustration coming from Lisp, but it's just business as usual in compiled, strongly typed system languages.
Not really. SML and OCaml let you evaluate selected code snippets in REPL just fine, and their compilation is fast. I'm not sure about Haskell, but I'd guess it's similar with ghci.
"Strongly-typed" is in the eye of the beholder, but the phrase "compiled, strongly-typed programming languages" generally doesn't bring to my mind C++ and Java of which this statement would be more accurate.