> Or, you can get them to adopt, but then you hit hiring limitations. Depends on how flexible your "hiring principles" are. You mention you did this at a Fortu

> Or, you can get them to adopt, but then you hit hiring limitations. Depends on how flexible your "hiring principles" are. You mention you did this at a Fortune 100 company, so obviously you didn't have any flexibility at all. But for the (good) places that allow people to learn on the job, you just need to find a sufficiently smart person who likes to learn, and they'll get up to speed with Clojure relatively quickly, as long as their first reaction when seeing parenthesis isn't "eww".