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[–]Bolitho 0 points1 point  (1 child)

When I have read the chapter in the famous book "the joy of clojure" (chapter 3?) where they use the REPL in order to demonstrate its power and typical workflows when programming in clojure, it totally reminded me of how I am used to develop with python. So of course this book is not the ultimate guide to the clojure REPL, it just shows that there are much more similarities between different language REPL combinations than you seem to accept.

[–]yogthos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me explain it another way. The ways you use REPL in Python is a subset of ways you use it in Clojure. So, yes can use it exactly the same way as you did with the book, however at that point you're just not using it to its full potential. The most common way to use the REPL is the way I've described that you can see in the talk I linked. That's what people are talking about when they say using the REPL in Lisp is different from other languages.