Likelihood a user of one of these languages will be interested in Clojure
Ada and Scala developers appear to be seven times more likely than C# developers to be interested in Clojure. While the small sample size and overall selection bias makes the Clojure survey not entirely authoritative, I found the process of compiling the ratio to be interesting.
Sources:
Survey of 487 Clojurians
TIOBE programming index for August 2010
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