[pjmlp]

Interactive development, and scripting that isn't tied to UNIX CLI culture.

But maybe I am strange, because I got to experience Smalltalk transcript, Oberon REPL, AmigaDOS and REXX, was into XEmacs when there were no UNIX based IDEs to chose from, got to use VB REPL before Microsoft killed it on VB.NET, Alegro Common Lisp, Caml Light,...

And I guess that is why nowadays I am a big Powershell fan, even if it errs on the verbosity side.

It is like having the debugger always turned on, and being able to script the OS as well.

[spauldo]

Sure, but do you use the native REPL for those things or do you go through SLIME or equivalent? That's what I'm curious about.

[pjmlp]

If am already on the REPL, why open a terminal window?