Yes. :-) Both strategies can be useful. (And note that "app" does not necessarily mean "web app"; web applications are just one kind of application. There are lots of different kinds of applications. The REPL helps with all of them.)
> we compile our code function-by-function with a keystroke and we get instant warnings and errors, when there is an error we get an interactive debugger that pops up and allows us to inspect the stack, go to the buggy line, recompile, come back to the REPL, resume the execution from the point we want, objects are updated when a class definition changes and we can even control that.
I know you are skeptical because python has a repl too and so it is hard to see what these "live" environments like lisp/smalltalk are offering. But trust me (and the others) that there is more than what python offers.
I have written python professionally probably more than any other language I have used, so I'm not ignorant of python btw.
No one is trying to fool you. But you don't have to take our word, please try it out for yourself!
I understand it just fine. I've used a Lisp REPL. I'm just pointing out that not all of the features of the Lisp REPL that are being mentioned are unique to Lisp.
> I know you are skeptical
I'm not "skeptical" at all about what can be done in a Lisp REPL. As I just said, I've used it. I have not claimed that a single thing anyone has said about the Lisp REPL is false.
I think you are reading things into my posts that I have not said.
> you don't have to take our word, please try it out for yourself
As I said above, I already have. Don't jump to conclusions.