After reading through these examples, I wonder how you might tie them closer together through how they each function rhetorically. Interestingly, they all carry some form of humor, which emerges from seemingly larger systemic code-writing practices, and add/reapply weight to the values associated with such things as efficiency, modularity, optimization, readability, etc. 

Each example seems to be a type of epideictic form of discourse, if viewed through Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's definition: "The argumentation in epidictic discourse sets out to increase the intensity of adherence to certain values, which might not be contested on their own but may nevertheless not prevail against other values that might come into conflict with them" (_The New Rhetoric_, p. 51).

Since you use Burke, his concept of Identification could perhaps help tease out the rhetorical function more. Or, I think a 2011 chapter by Richard Graff and Wendy Winn on Burke's Identification and P-OT's Communion may help as well. This chp is in _The Promise of Reason_ edited collection. If you'd like I can send you copy.

Overall, I think these examples you've chosen "say" a lot and certainly give weight to your own arguments! I really enjoy rhetorical scholarship, like your's, that can show the effectiveness of style.