Comment by bmitc

This is a very "Internet" comment, but what struck me about the title and very many other titles in the software engineering world is that I'm not sure it's the best idea to belittle readers in the title. The implication of "<x> for normal people, mortals, dummies, etc." titles is that the reader is not on the level of the author of the book and the authors of the tool or topic that one is learning about. Specifically, "for mortals" implies the author and programming language author are immortals, or at least not mortal. I realize this is taking the title more seriously than probably intended, but this type of framing pops up a lot in the software and programming world.