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Book details of 'The Computer Contradictionairy'
| Title | The Computer Contradictionairy |
| Author(s) | Stan Kelly-Bootle |
| ISBN | 0262611120 |
| Language | English |
| Published | April 1995 |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
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Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote:A humourous dictionary of computer terms with comments. A lot of the inside-joke variety so it's only funny to computer buffs
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
The only two computer dictionaries worth having are both from MIT Press: "The New Hacker's Dictionary" (see reviews), and this one. As news is something that someone, somewhere, wants hushed up, so the only computer terms of any importance are those that someone, somewhere, just made up. Everything else is the perverted verbiage of a marketing department. Where "Hacker's" (or TNHD) studies and stores the language of the anarchic technical crowd, the Contradictionary deals with the jargon of those who work in DP, IT, and IS--those who truly understand MISmanagement. It is not intended to be a reference work--Kelly-Bootle notes that the reader should determine the meaning of a word *before* looking it up in this book--but a work of humour. Like all the best humour, of course, it has strong points to make. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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