I think you're taking the article way too literally, especially considering who the author is (almost all of Yegge's rants are sarcastic or contain large amount

I think you're taking the article way too literally, especially considering who the author is (almost all of Yegge's rants are sarcastic or contain large amounts of sarcasm.) The dig isn't on Haskell, it's more on "industry" if anything. I read it as more a satirical lamentation regarding the relatively low adoption of Haskell outside of academic-leaning circles. I, for one, upvoted the article and think that the upvotes are justified. I felt that the article held literary value and espoused an interesting and humorous (if a bit brash) take on this situation. If you google around, it would seem that most professional Haskell programmers are PhD holders, and I think the point he is trying to convey is that this is a somewhat unfortunate situation given the power and potential of the language.