My cofounder was an enterprise Java programmer and started learning Lisp for our startup. He is now a very big Lisp fan and very good Lisp coder and counting t

My cofounder was an enterprise Java programmer and started learning Lisp for our startup. He is now a very big Lisp fan and very good Lisp coder and counting the days until he can leave Java behind permanently (He was a top notch Java coder as well). So for good coding talent, learning to use Lisp is probably not that big of a barrier.