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There are no practical uses for any lisp dialect. I don't care if the world would be a better place if they were actually used, they aren't. Learning it is purely an academic pursuit.

According to you a beginner should spend years writing pseudocode and understand everything inside-out before they can even think of doing something.

That's complete bullshit. What matters for a self-taught beginner is that they can stick with learning.

That's why you want a language that brings instant gratification and lets you go from "I want to learn to code" to "look at my shitty tic-tac-toe game" in as few days as possible.