OH at the last Emacs meetup: "What shell do you use? Zsh, bash, ...?" "I use Korn 93!" — I've never met two elispers with the same workflow.
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Ha, you can run Emacs from within eshell (though not `emacs -nw`). Real elispers use recursive editors though.
Writing GNU Emacs Extensions is excellent. It's accessible to elisp newbies but experienced elispers will probably learn new things too.