Actually it's the other way around. For someone who is not exposed to programming at all, it is much easier to pick up a language like Clojure. This is not merely my opinion - I have seen it multiple times, with different people.
Julie Moronuki who never had any exposure to programming at all and has a degree in linguistics decided to learn Haskell as her first programming language, just as an experiment. Not only she did manage to learn Haskell and become an expert, she co-authored one of the best selling Haskell books. I remember her saying that after Haskell other (more traditional) languages looked extremely confusing and weird to her.
Actually it's the other way around. For someone who is not exposed to programming at all, it is much easier to pick up a language like Clojure. This is not merely my opinion - I have seen it multiple times, with different people.
Julie Moronuki who never had any exposure to programming at all and has a degree in linguistics decided to learn Haskell as her first programming language, just as an experiment. Not only she did manage to learn Haskell and become an expert, she co-authored one of the best selling Haskell books. I remember her saying that after Haskell other (more traditional) languages looked extremely confusing and weird to her.
I only had experience of coding in Matlab in university, and started learning Clojure in my first job. It was very intuitive.