Robert Glass comes across as arrogant. Sure, he's been working in software since before most programmers were born (myself included). And yeah, nearly all of the "facts" in his book are correct. However, he comes across like a petty whiner ("those academics...they just can't do anything right").

There is good material in this book, but it's painful to extract. I struggled to finish the book, in part because of the author's voice, and in part because the forced structure (each "fact" has Discussion, Controversy, Sources, and Reference sections) breaks up any sort of flow. The presentation would almost work better as a page-a-day calendar.