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Okay, maybe I didn't make it clear.

The problem isn't that people weren't learning new stuff. Everybody knew the newer languages - how else would they know they wanted to use them?

Unfortunately, not everybody can drop everything and re-implement a large system in a trendy new language.



> how else would they know they wanted to use them?

By reading blog posts and articles about new 'hotness'. I often want to use something without having previously used it.




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