&gt;That is why I mentioned almost.<p>Well, if by &quot;almost&quot; you meant &quot;in practice few and far between&quot;, then we agree :-)<p>What I&#x27;ve seen is that languages with AOT rarely have good (or any) REPLs.<p>Now, LISP of course has AOT, but it also shared (and early on) many characteristics of scripting languages (GC, dynamic typing, etc).<p>So, maybe a better way to put it is Algol derived languages with AOT as a rule don&#x27;t have a good REPL story.