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A lot of people do not realize that they can use emacs on a terminal but also as a gui app. Also copying and pasting from other apps is possible and normal in emacs. For non ide languages i think emacs and vim are head and shoulders above any other editor, atom is really bad compared to emacs for example. The problem is that most people don't know how to use them.

You are right about assembly. I was thinking c, then a little bit of assembly just enough to demystify it. I think learning just a little bit assembly makes you a braver programer hahaha. In any case if ound a lot of people really damaged by java. Its horrible what that language can do to some people's coding style and framework when thinking about problems.

I think learning java first would be very very detrimental to someone's coding skills. They would spend the rest of their careers trying to deprogram themselves from that useless way of structurng problems. For me the best would be first c, then assembly, then lisp. In my experience people That started with java and then learned python or js or something else tend to write horrible convoluted code.