I was mainly concerned with teaching Clojure in this project as everyone had little or no experience prior, so nobody was blocked by learners. Those who were fi

I was mainly concerned with teaching Clojure in this project as everyone had little or no experience prior, so nobody was blocked by learners. Those who were fired all had one thing in common: They refused to adopt Clojure beyond its syntax in favor of patterns they learned to rely on in another language. This varied from porting Scala polymorphism to just banging out imperative while loops with atoms. I don't think they were incapable. They simply didn't want to learn it. Code reviews turned into arguments quickly, took endless time and lead nowhere. Their code was never touched by those who stayed and were able to work together. Later it was rewritten, because in spite of tons of unit tests (which passed), it was full of bugs. The code was considered "write-only". The rewrites averaged at 5-10% LOC.