The Computer Contradictionary is a non-fiction book by Stan Kelly-Bootle that compiles a satirical list of definitions of computer industry terms. It was...
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forms in British place names Phono-semantic matching Sniglet The Computer Contradictionary The Devil's Dictionary Toponymy Uxbridge English Dictionary Flood...
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List of phobias (redirect from The Phobia List)
PMC 7474809. PMID 33271693. Kelly-Bootle S (May 1995). "Aibohphobia". The Computer Contradictionary. MIT Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-262-61112-1. Jenkins J (10 June...
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Kelly-Bootle, Stan (1981). The Computer Contradictionary. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-034022-6. Volkart, Edmond Howell (1986). The Angel's Dictionary: a Modern...
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DECUS, and others (see The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder for a human history of this period). "The computer contradictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle...
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Write-only memory (joke) (category Computer memory)
adamant that Farnsfarfle was a very small man. The editors won. The 1995 Computer Contradictionary book discusses EWOM, or Erasable Write-Only Memory (an analogy...
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Stan Kelly-Bootle (category English computer scientists)
programmer. He was known in the computer community for The Devil's DP Dictionary and its second edition, The Computer Contradictionary (1995), which he authored...
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published by computer scientist Donald Knuth in 1977 as an in-joke about computational complexity theory The Computer Contradictionary, a non-fiction...
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