Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: November 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780126339512
Subjects: Programming languages; Computers - Languages / Programming; Computers; Computer Books: General; Programming Languages - General; Computers / Programming Languages / General; Computer Architecture - General; Programming languages (Electronic computers)
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)."