[lsiebert]

It seems like one of the big things he is talking about is good documentation which includes usable example code.

Bash Shell scripting would be a lot simpler to use if each man page for a program or shell function had 10 or so examples with the most common command uses which were easy to paste into an editor.

Course my real preference would be the inverse. Search how to do something, return code in the specified language/shell to do it. Right now that's done by Google and other search engines, though rather poorly. Also google doesn't compare and contrast implentations.

The faster we can find a way to implement our goal, the greater our efficiency. That is something abstraction does of course , but we should remember that documentation also serves programmers.