Computer Contradictionary

Name: Computer Contradictionary
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ISBN: 9780262611121

ISBN-10: 0262611120

ISBN-13: 9780262611121

Edition: 2nd 1995

Authors: Stan Kelly-Bootle

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"Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary," warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions. New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing "laxicon" is a response to the "Unix pandemic" that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a "hugely bewildered, lay audience." The original dictionary, an urbane and witty pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work, parried chiefly the…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/10/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction to The Computer Contradictionary


Introduction to the First Edition


Guide


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