Michael Litchard
I disagree. I'm by no means proficient in Haskell. And, I never bothered learning PHP. I will when I need to. PHP programmers are a dime a dozen.
..and since PHP programmers are a dime a dozen, any decent manager (who, after all, has an MBA and knows that employees¹ are expendable and interchangeable means of production) will select PHP as the technology for her next project. Gresham's law states roughly that bad money drives out good. I thus propose a corollary: bad languages drive out good.
It's been my experience that Haskell is a tool one may use to distinguish oneself from the hoi-poloi. This is important when you live in an area where the baker down the street has a CS degree.
Are you saying CS degrees are a dime a baker's dozen? -k ¹) With the sole exception of managers, of course. -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants