They are, but they are few and far in between. There is a larger volume of enterprise opportunities. While they do pay less, but they aren't among the ranks of being an astronaut. Theres been about 300 astronauts since NASA was founded, there haven't been all that many more (probably a lot less in fact) web entrepreneurs who made it near as rich as facebooks owner.

But hey, if I can get a multi-billion dollar deal for a PHP site, you better believe I will forget all about MS. Who knows what I would do with all that, it probably wouldnt be on the internet at all though. [end tangent]

Now for something I am sure we can agree on. I would rather program whatever language Google uses and work for them than any "better" language. But here comes the astronaut and the "I didn't got to MIT" issues.

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