As someone who came from a similar background, the ice broke when I went from trying to write code the C way- in whole files, running the nascent program from t

As someone who came from a similar background, the ice broke when I went from trying to write code the C way- in whole files, running the nascent program from the command line, struggling with compiler errors, adding printlns for debugging- to working at the repl. The repl is the whole thing.