Comment by watmough

They are smoking crack if they think anyone will use a scripting language that doesn't have a functioning REPL.

My goto-languages for quick development are Perl 5, Clojure and Javascript.

All 3 are adequately fast for real tasks. All are cross-platform, and all 3 support a REPL that allows doing real work interactively.

These conditions are the absolute minimum to be viable as a scripting or sketch/prototyping language.