Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: November 7, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780126339512
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)."