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The standard repl for Steel Bank Common Lisp is worse than Cpython's with no basic readline support. The Common Lisp environment really shows its strengths when

The standard repl for Steel Bank Common Lisp is worse than Cpython's with no basic readline support. The Common Lisp environment really shows its strengths when using a fully interactive development environment like a Lisp machine environment or Emacs with SLIME.

lispm 9y ago
CLISP has readline support.
omaranto 9y ago
I'd call it the "built-in repl" rather than the standard one, since I don't think it's actually standard for people to use it directly.