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Best way to learn programming:

1) Learn logic
2) Learn assembly
3) Learn C

At this point, two choices: stick with C or learn whatever high-level languages/paradigms suit what you want to do.

Almost everyone does the exact reverse.  First learn BASIC or Java, then attempt to understand what's going on underneath (and probably never get around to it).

If you go from the bottom up, each step gets easier and there's no mystery hiding what's going on under the hood.

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Professionals don't use the very high level languages you advocate. They use Java, C++, and C#, all of which are terrible considering performance and development time.

Academics aren't concerned with performance on actual machines; depending on their interest they might completely ignore performance considerations outside of complexity analysis or they might assume an idealized ISA that has never existed.

I guess it would be hackers (in the original sense) that care about performance over development time, and you're one of the mythical professionals that use decent languages designed to actually decrease development time.