Thousands of words on how to write a programming book, without having to actually write a programming book, and not one single example of a good book or a bad book.
a) I'm referring to his diatribe about bad books. Now we will see articles about how books should be written. The entire article is a about why he wrote the book. That's what I meant about "meta...".
b) Citations. Making claims about how awful coding books are without examples is a bit thin, IMHO.