I see. Yes, that's a fair point that I think maybe I've gotten a little numb to because the place I work at kind of has the opposite bias (i.e., "we got burned in the past so now you have to fight tooth and nail to be allowed to introduce tools that would make work on the project significantly more productive").
Yeah, there absolutely has to be a balance. The important part is basing the arguments on sound technical and business justifications. "No, we can't move off of Perl because it's what I learned in college in 1996" is not really any better -- but then, Perl isn't really so bad. ;)
