jewgold

lisp    $79,000
c++    $87,000
java    $86,000
c#    $86,000   
python    $83,000
ruby    $78,000
smalltalk $90,000   
php    $74,000

source:
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=lisp&l1=&q2=c%2B%2B&l2=&q3=java&l3=&q4=c%23&l4=&q5=python&l5=&q6=ruby&l6=&q7=smalltalk&l7=&q8=php&l8=

what is this shit?
do php programmers really get $74K salaries? what the hell is wrong with the world?

ITT: programming languages you have been paid to use, what you were doing with them, how much you were paid a year, and a time frame.

eg:
scheme
calculating Fibonacci numbers
$0.00.P.A
1972 - now

>>18
compare the speed of this with the best iterative fib you can come up with:
threeFibs 0 = [1,0,1]
threeFibs 1 = [1,1,0]
threeFibs n = (\[a,b,c] [1,d,e] -> [a+b*d,b+c*d,b*d+c*e]) ((\[a,b,c] -> [a*a+b*b,b*(a+c),b*b+c*c]) . threeFibs $ div n 2) (threeFibs $ mod n 2)
fib n = threeFibs n !! 1