Scheme is remarkably less interactive than Common Lisp, though specifics depend on dialect of Scheme. Common Lisp is remarkably more geared towards interactive

Scheme is remarkably less interactive than Common Lisp, though specifics depend on dialect of Scheme. Common Lisp is remarkably more geared towards interactive use, but while it does make it easy most of the time to be used with just minimal REPL - as in literal (loop (print (eval (read)))) - it's best to use integrated, enhanced environments like SLIME/SLY/SLIMV/etc or one of the IDEs (LispWorks, AllegroCL, Clozure CL IDE)