I don't think that the life time of his older books is necessarily over (for better or worse... probably for the worse but that is another discussion). Much of

I don't think that the life time of his older books is necessarily over (for better or worse... probably for the worse but that is another discussion). Much of the advice in the old books is still 100% valid ('Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors'), and C++98 is still an entirely valid subset of the language. It is going to be a long time before even a fraction of that existing code is phased out or updated.