Lisp programmers usually use the term "REPL" closer to its original form. read, eval, print, loop are primitives in Lisps. They consider what other languages ca

Lisp programmers usually use the term "REPL" closer to its original form. read, eval, print, loop are primitives in Lisps. They consider what other languages call a "REPL" to be interpreters or mere command-line interactive interfaces. Programmers in other languages usually suffice to calling an interactive interface a REPL.