It is all about making developers cogs. The language and frameworks are only useful so far as they make you more replaceable. Don't ever do anything clever or a

It is all about making developers cogs. The language and frameworks are only useful so far as they make you more replaceable. Don't ever do anything clever or advanced even if it makes the company a ton of money or boosts productivity. Because the next cheap grad they hire to replace you might not be able to figure it out seeing as he only knows Java or .net. At my job, they have started trying to convince us that "fungibility" is something that we should aspire to. As though we can't see what that means. I'm not against good documentation and clean code that makes it easier on the next developer, but this is taking things to an extreme.