.>> "Agreed.  Why is it that there is a belief that programmers have trouble
learning to use new tools?  Does anyone question whether a carpenter can use
a new model of saw?"
It is not about new tools that programmers can't learn.
It is about age.
Companies want to get rid of older programmers who are costing them money
and replace them with younger, and preferably foreign,  workers who will
work for lower wages.
Of course they lose the experience and problem solving skills that newer
programmers do not have.  But that does not matter much anymore.
In the mind of business managers, cheaper = better

jm

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