I'm in exactly the same boat. I've been doing Perl for 14 years, and never use a REPL. Occasionally I'll hit 'perl -e ""' on the command line, which I guess is a similar idea...
Hey I didn't mean to offend Perl long-timers. See my response to btilly...
Hacker News is a bit of an exception to what you find in the real world (where 3 years of experience with a language can be considered as better than average).
