My background is freelancing/consulting where it's not uncommon to gather diverse individuals to work on a greenfield project. There's an implicit assumption t

My background is freelancing/consulting where it's not uncommon to gather diverse individuals to work on a greenfield project. There's an implicit assumption that all participants know a thing or two about programming, and accordingly are apt learners. So yes, on day 3 the code won't be perfect, neither on day 6 but after a few code reviews one can get stuff done. Personally I wouldn't be comfortable prescribing Clojure for such a project, in contrast to other languages which I've never coded in, but that I know that socially, today, work better.