Because The King of the Patato-People said so!
He said maintenance programmers out, new developers in. Move on to the latest MS-Platform and the latest language updates and take the old programers outside to be shot (or uninstalled). If the maintenance programmers (of which I am one) don't learn the latest technologys (be it OOP or ".NET" or Java 2 or whatever) then out they go. Out out out! Because the PHBs are controlled by the King of the Patato-People. What he says, goes.
"I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!" | Moe Howard |