Great analogy, but i'm not sure it's accurate. Any kind of abstraction (functions, interfaces, objects, macros, DSLs, frameworks) could be considered a pneumati

Great analogy, but i'm not sure it's accurate. Any kind of abstraction (functions, interfaces, objects, macros, DSLs, frameworks) could be considered a pneumatic nail gun. Software development is built on layers of abstraction that directly allow one human to frame a 2-story house, while typing very little. The amount of actual machine code generated by a simple CRUD application can be massive. Optimizing the raw typing is only useful when you have no control over the deeper abstractions (like if you are stuck with C++).