Thread: Power

Because while Schildt is indeed a good author, in that he writes interesting texts, he very frequently gets his facts wrong. Here's what a page about the C and C++ standards has to say about his book "The Annotated ANSI C Standard":

Herbert Schildt is not held in wide regard by knowledgeable C and C++programmers, and this is the only book with his name on it most of them would ever recommend. The format of the book places the text of the standard on the left hand pages side-by-side with Schildt's annotations on the right hand side.

While many of Schildt's comments are incorrect and flatly contradict the actual text of the standard on the facing page, the standard itself is complete except for one missing page.

In fact, the reason this book is recommended is simply that it's the cheapest way of acquiring a copy of the standard.
Some more:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html
http://herd.plethora.net/~seebs/c/c_tcr.html

Wait, surely, Schildt must be an experienced programmer to write such books. He has written alot, too. On the cover of my book it says that "he is one of the most popular authors" and has sold "more than 2.5 million books".

But how then can he be wrong in so many cases and even contradictory to the standard? Aren't there some people that chack the book for errors before it's published?