I would be one of your 10%. I have been using Lisp languages since the late 1970...

mark_l_watson on July 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012)

I would be one of your 10%. I have been using Lisp languages since the late 1970s and Common Lisp since about 1982 so I think it is just familiarity.

Another reason could be developers who like to compose programs from the bottom up would naturally like repl based development, but there are many languages with great repl experiences.

hcarvalhoalves on July 1, 2020 [–]

Many languages have command prompts, but the ones you could actually call a REPL (full featured) are few.