> With a Lisp you can evaluate your code in real time in your editor. Technically there's nothing about Lisp that makes it uniquely suited for this; it's just

> With a Lisp you can evaluate your code in real time in your editor. Technically there's nothing about Lisp that makes it uniquely suited for this; it's just that people developing tooling for most other languages have a tragic lack of imagination. Smalltalk, Forth, Factor, and to a degree Lua all support the same styles idiomatically, while Racket is a lisp, but it discourages this style.