Comment by cloverich

Its not just that it doesn't always apply. Its that the absracted rules are not useful as stand alone guides to developing code, although they are presented as such. Its the entire purpose of the book isn't it? The argument against this book isn't that books about code style and rules are bad. Its that this one is bad. And its often recommended as core reading material to new developers (several examples of that in this thread). I've read several code style / guide books over the last decade. This is one of the few I put down fairly early on because it just didn't seem very good.