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How long does it take to read Programming Languages?

Terrence W. Pratt, Marvin V. Zelkowitz

Programming Languages by Terrence W. Pratt, Marvin V. Zelkowitz takes about 11 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 11 hours 59 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1975. 654 pages, about 179,850 words.

24 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 19 hours 59 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 11 hours 59 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 7 hours 30 minutes

The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This describes programming language design by means of the underlying software and hardware architecture that is required for execution of programs written in those languages.

Subjects: Langages de programmation, Programmatuurtechniek, Programming Languages, Entwurf, Implementation, Programmiersprache

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