In the rare times when Lisp and other functional languages are used in industry, it's usually to address a difficult or poorly-understood problem, since those l

In the rare times when Lisp and other functional languages are used in industry, it's usually to address a difficult or poorly-understood problem, since those languages tend to be associated with research. It's not surprising that it would be hard to get a programmer up to speed on such things. My employer is looking for someone who would enjoy doing Schemey work in a Java environment, solving not-so-difficult problems. It wasn't hard to find someone last time around, and I don't think it will be hard this time around once we fix the job description, which is poorly-written and factually incorrect.