I agree with what you say except that the "joke" is not about carpentry at all, instead we are transplanting some common (?) programmer occurrences into the world of carpentry. So it is not an analogy..
It's like that joke, "what if OS'es were cars?" and then in the linux car you have to bring your own seat or something. Car lovers should not be offended...
But back to agreeing with you: it seems that the world of programming is much more brittle than carpentry. Ie. it is indeed true that someone without vast experience in brown may get tripped up by some rarely seen consequence of brown-ness. Maybe it has a weird interaction with the extra warm weather that causes the wood to rot. Etc.
It's like that joke, "what if OS'es were cars?" and then in the linux car you have to bring your own seat or something. Car lovers should not be offended...
But back to agreeing with you: it seems that the world of programming is much more brittle than carpentry. Ie. it is indeed true that someone without vast experience in brown may get tripped up by some rarely seen consequence of brown-ness. Maybe it has a weird interaction with the extra warm weather that causes the wood to rot. Etc.