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

>>33
Prelude> let fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs) in fibs !! 40000
2317995759...5359577501
(3.92 secs, 108973360 bytes)
Prelude> let twoFibs n=case n of{0->[1,0];1->[0,1];_->(\[a,b][c,d]->[a*c+b*d,b+a*d])((\[a,b]->map(b*b+)[a*a,2*a*b]).twoFibs$div n 2)$twoFibs$mod n 2} in let fib n=head$twoFibs n in fib 40002
2317995759...5359577501
(0.22 secs, 7488156 bytes)
Prelude> let twoFibs n=case n of{0->[1,0];1->[0,1];_->(\[a,b][c,d]->[a*c+b*d,b+a*d])((\[a,b]->map(b*b+)[a*a,2*a*b]).twoFibs$div n 2)$twoFibs$mod n 2} in let fib n=head$twoFibs n in fib 1000000
1207194745...6684390626
(4.63 secs, 88099104 bytes)
that's 208988 digits. lern2matrix.