I have no personal opinion, not having read this, although the negative comments sound reasonable...besides, you should always take a reference with a grain of salt (I wanted to rate "-", but was forced to select a rating). But the term Bullschildt has INDEED made it into the Jargon File.Entry:bullschildt: /bul'shilt/, n.[comp.lang.c on USENET] A confident, but incorrect, statement about a programming language. This immortalizes a very bad book about C, Herbert Schildt's C - The Complete Reference. One reviewer commented "The naive errors in this book would be embarrassing even in a programming assignment turned in by a computer science college sophomore."But just because there are naive errors doesn't mean it wouldn't be useful to somebody even more naive.