True enough, as far as 50K (or less!) vs. 90K, however did you address the institutional knowledge thrown out the door and the value therein? No, you didn't, and oftentimes the companies making these decisions don't either. Granted there are programmers so set in their ways that they can't learn a new language, but there are also many that are good programmers that can apply that skill - which transcends languages - to a new language. It would behoove those companies to keep those people around.

>But if we have a salary of 90k/yr, the college grad at 50k/yr looks awfully attractive. Especially if the company has decided to go with the technology the college grad used his entire career at the university while you or I have no knowledge of the technology at all.
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>I've seen people complain when Windows started taking over, when Object Oriented started becoming a popular buzzword, and I didn't see any good come of it for them. Other then to help get them further from the latest technology curve.