I get the sense Herb hasn't moved with the times, and is pretty much stuck in the ways that served him before the internet, hence the lack of improvement. How

I get the sense Herb hasn't moved with the times, and is pretty much stuck in the ways that served him before the internet, hence the lack of improvement. How bad do you have to be to not continuously improve what you did before? Also, his examples to me scream that he hasn't or doesn't really write code for a living, or if he does, it's with a community of other fossils like him. I can't respect any programming book writer who doesn't have some kind of automation in place to ensure all his code samples (1) compile, and (2) work as expected. Basic stuff nowadays. And even me, with not very much C cred, can see his C code is clearly not idiomatic for C these days, if you compare it to some well-written OSS C.