[1]:http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/?pa=reviews&sa=viewBook&bookId=69421


I don't agree with  Wlodzimierz's general comments about chaos! In many aspects Bourbaki did a tremendous job in writing clear and clean mathematics,  but the aim which I think is professed of writing a complete and so to speak permanent account comes up against the evolving nature of the mathematical project. This is evident in many present and past attitudes to category theory. 

A review for the MAA of the 1968 edition of my book "Elements of Modern Topology", now "Topology and Groupoids" (2006), suggested it read like a "book on topology written by a category theorist", and this was presumably not meant as a compliment! Many regarded its use of groupoids as a mistake. Compare a recent [review][1].  I would hope most mathematicians now recognise the enormous contribution category theory has made to the unity of mathematics, allowing analogies between constructions in quite disparate parts of the subject, through such terms as limit and colimit, as but one example. 

I feel that the progress of mathematics is considerably helped by people trying to write complete, consistent  and clear accounts, so that the deficiencies  in the attempt, i.e. in current understanding,  become apparent.