Best coding practice.

I had hoped to learn something following this thread, but I am more confused now then before this thread was started. :~

So can someone explain it in simple words that a hardware guy could understand? What must I come away with from this topic that is important to my writing 'better' code in the future? What kind of unintended bugs could I put into my sketch if I misunderstand what is trying to be communicated here. Keep it simple and I've always found example code to be more effective then just English words, these postings will out live us all.

Lefty