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"... Unlike Ruby, Clojure doesn’t come with a precooked readline-equipped REPL, but you can get a primitive one going in a simple shell script ..."

Big oversight?

There are readline wrappers such as rlwrap ( http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rlwrap.1.html ), which may be handy for other stuff.

Bray does add "Don’t do that though, get yourself some IDE help."

No, not really the primitive one is quite good and for anything more advanced you will need Emacs anyway.

"... No, not really the primitive one is quite good ..."

Does make me wonder why a negative comment about the readline was included if this is the case?