Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: disappointing

I bought the book in 1991 and was disappointed. The sample code is highly platform (DOS) dependent and not that useful as one might think. You can get at much better code from hundreds of maintained OpenSource projects.But worse than that, the interviews don't deserve that term. There is no question and answer pattern. A single page for each celebrity gives a short introduction and then just a few short statements, like "A program should work flawlessly" or "Thinking back, I always hated FORTRAN, probably more than Cobol". These won't help the readers to become better programmers.It's an outdated book that never lived up to its title and that I can't recommend to buy.