Programming Language Pragmatics
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 856
ISBN-13: 9781558604421
Subjects: Programming languages; Programming - Software Development; Pragmatics; Programming Language Semantics; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Programming languages (Electronic computers); Computer Books: Languages; Programming languages (Electro; Computer Architecture - General; Programming Languages - General; Computers / Programming / Software Development; Compilers
First sentence: "The first electronic computers were monstrous contraptions, filling several rooms, consuming as much electricity as a good-size factory, and costing millions of 1940s dollars (but with the computing power of a modern hand-held calculator)."
Description: "Programming Language Pragmatics addresses the fundamental principles at work in the most important contemporary languages, highlights the critical relationship between language design and language implementation, and devotes special attention to issues of importance to the expert programmer.

Thanks to its rigorous but accessible teaching style, you'll emerge better prepared to choose the best language for particular projects, to make more effective use of languages you already know, and to learn new languages quickly and completely."--BOOK JACKET.