Note that few languages can provide truly Lisp style REPL. For this, the language needs to make no distinction between data and code. You need to be able to generate all language statements dynamically (not string representation of statements that can be then then evaluated, just statements). Erlang does not have this, data and code are different things, so it can't provide Lisp style REPL (The same with Python). Some more info about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12253200/what-is-so-power...
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Note that few languages can provide truly Lisp style REPL. For this, the language needs to make no distinction between data and code. You need to be able to generate all language statements dynamically (not string representation of statements that can be then then evaluated, just statements). Erlang does not have this, data and code are different things, so it can't provide Lisp style REPL (The same with Python). Some more info about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12253200/what-is-so-power...