Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:09:20 EST
From: "Rob Slade, the doting grandpa of Ryan Hoff"
Subject: "The Computer Contradictionary" by Kelly-Bootle

BKCMCNTD.RVW   950602
 
"The Computer Contradictionary", Kelly-Bootle, 1995, 0-262-61112-0, U$14.95
%A   Stan Kelly-Bootle
%C   55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA   02142-1399
%D   1995
%G   0-262-61112-0
%I   The MIT Press
%O   U$14.95 curtin@mit.edu
%P   239
%T   "The Computer Contradictionary"
 
The only two computer dictionaries worth having are both from MIT Press:  "The
New Hacker's Dictionary" (cf. BKNHACKD.RVW), 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   BKCMCNTD.RVW   950602

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