[lispm]

> I said multiple times Lisp "can" work that way, stop being so defensive. But the point in fact is most Lisp developers don't work that they, they don't live in the REPL full time like Smalltalk devs do, you load from source quite often in comparison to the 0 times Smalltalk'ers do.

That Lisp developers load source does not mean that the image gets restarted. Lisp usually is designed such that you can incrementally update/manipulate the running image. As I said that's the dominant development style for Lisp, AFAIK.

> the dev environment feels better than anything else out there.

That's what my friends who still use Symbolics Open Genera tell me all the time. ;-)