I can't find a publication date for the first version, but since the second edition [was published in 2010](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache

I can't find a publication date for the first version, but since the second edition [was published in 2010](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eW9X2nOXSjgJ:https://lpthw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eW9X2nO...) I suspect it's now been nearly 10 years since that statement was written.