It's "known to be crap" among the people who already know the language, because of folks like Seebs. That's the point. It's a little dated now, I suppose, but

It's "known to be crap" among the people who already know the language, because of folks like Seebs. That's the point. It's a little dated now, I suppose, but it may be worth remembering that Schildt's books were very popular at one point. Quite a number of people learned C from that awful book, with no idea how many bad habits they were ingesting.