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About once a week I get a note from another recruiter offering, for C++ coding, north of a half $mil per annum from a certain hedge fund with a reputation for high turnover.

And of course we all get our monthly calls from Google recruitment contractors to come code Google's special subset of C++. Google doesn't offer a half $mil to everyone, but remarkably many do get it. I expect a few even get it for coding Haskell, although one may doubt that is what the req they were hired on called for.