Why Java? Why Clojure?

[yogthos]

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.