[Haskell-cafe] Popularity?!

[Tom Ellis]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 11:51:31AM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
> https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#top-paying-technologies  is
> the link.  Honestly, though, the salary numbers seem so wrong that I find
> it hard to take them seriously.  I imagine what's going on here is that
> salaries vary mainly by location.  Technologies that have not been adopted
> in regions where salaries are lower will show up at the top of this list.
> It says nothing about how salaries in any given area will compare.
> Interpreting correlations like this is tricky.

Perl as top-paying programming language, and Bash/Shell/PowerShell as
number 6 are particularly hard to believe.