agree. CLISP's REPL is beginner friendly, but we shall not advise it today. I'm doing this: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ Common Lisp with batteries included. The terminal REPL has completion and syntax highlighting. You can run scripts easily. You get many common libraries. (beta)
you can see https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl and https://github.com/fosskers/vend (newer)
> sane beginner defaults
agree. CLISP's REPL is beginner friendly, but we shall not advise it today. I'm doing this: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ Common Lisp with batteries included. The terminal REPL has completion and syntax highlighting. You can run scripts easily. You get many common libraries. (beta)