Clojure, like so many of the functional languages, struggles to attract beginners. I mean for rilz beginners. I don't mean it's unsuited to them. My company ha

Clojure, like so many of the functional languages, struggles to attract beginners. I mean for rilz beginners. I don't mean it's unsuited to them. My company has a developer with one year of Javascript programming experience productively working in Clojure. But, I think often about how hostile FP's vocabulary is to non-experts. (Personally, the baggage I brought from OO made FP incomprehensible for quite some time). Clojure documentation, and most tutorials aimed at it, for example, take for granted newcomers' comprehension. If we could measure the average number of languages a programmer brings to the table when he learns Clojure, I'd be willing to bet it's more than two. Ruby and Python on the other hand are languages where beginners thrive! Not only are many of the language concepts self-evident, the communities are often driven by recently graduated beginners spawning beginner-level documentation, beginner-level sympatico, etc.