Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? Around D.C., there's this tendency for employers to be very open with what languages you've used before

Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? Around D.C., there's this tendency for employers to be very open with what languages you've used before. Have you only used Ada? Welcome on-board, though we have no uniforms here. Only used Erlang? Are you guys still saying you can see the whitehouse from your building? And for some reason C#/Java are considered almost the same language, depending on whom you talk to. Honestly, good people are good, and we don't have enough of them to become picky about demanding 5+ years experience in exactly what you are already doing. It'll take a month to onboard someone regardless of if they've used the language or not before.