[lilactown]

I think they are very similar, but different enough that it makes sense to use different words. Using just the word "REPL" doesn't give much insight into the iceberg of capabilities that lisps like Clojure, Common Lisp, etc. provide. I wrote a long post about some of the differences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475647

Would love a better word or phrase to differentiate from e.g. the way people experience a python or haskell REPL.

[brundolf]

For the richer version others have suggested "hot reloading", "live reloading", "live patching", etc. I think all of these are descriptive enough, and most importantly, don't overload a term that many people already understand to mean something different