Datamation
Datamation: /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers
assume all suits read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as
in "Did you read that in `Datamation?'" (But see below; this slur
may be dated by the time you read this.) It used to publish
something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the original
paper on COME FROM in 1973, and Ed Post's "Real Programmers Don't
Use Pascal" ten years later, but for a long time after that it was
much more exclusively suit-oriented and boring. Following a
change of editorship in 1994, Datamation is trying for more of the
technical content and irreverent humor that marked its early days.
Datamation now has a WWW page at `http://www.datamation.com'
worth visiting for its selection of computer humor, including "Real
Programmers Don't Use Pascal" and the `Bastard Operator From Hell'
stories by Simon Travaglia (see BOFH).
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