Yet, if you do know Lisp, you realize that not too many languages feature a true REPL with the R not just reading in Text that gets evaluated, but actually bein

Yet, if you do know Lisp, you realize that not too many languages feature a true REPL with the R not just reading in Text that gets evaluated, but actually being a Reader. So, we actually did lose some things with the new and shiny REPLs - Macros. No debating your statement that there are other good programming environments with other shiny features^^