The criticisms were valid then, too. C (including the preprocessor of course) is still not fully parseable if you include things like token concatenation.
I make no representation as to soundness, then or now. Not till I figure out where my copy of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook has got to, at any rate. I've had cause reasonably recently to reread the X and sendmail chapters, not so much this one.
The mistakes embodied in both thus far look not just still relevant but positively timeless. Certainly, to judge by how often young people with no sense of their field's history recapitulate those mistakes.
