The analogy is that the hardware store represents framework, and the hammer represents a piece of functionality the framework is supposed to provide.
The point is that frameworks of the era rarely provided a simple, direct API for performing some task. Rather, there was often a whole bunch of "Abstract Factory Factory" patterns, which would require a bunch of ceremony before you actually had and object that did the work you needed to do.
The point is that frameworks of the era rarely provided a simple, direct API for performing some task. Rather, there was often a whole bunch of "Abstract Factory Factory" patterns, which would require a bunch of ceremony before you actually had and object that did the work you needed to do.