That is why I mentioned <i>almost</i>.<p>I am pretty conformable with Lisp, which isn&#x27;t a scripting language at all, offers both a very good REPL experience and has the option of compiling to native code, both at REPL and AOT.<p>Also BASICs not only had an interpreter, but they also had AOT compilers. Visual Basic had a REPL, it was called Interactive Window.<p>Scripting languages don&#x27;t have AOT compilers to native code nor Lisp is a scripting language, so I don&#x27;t get the point of the comment I was replying to.