:Datamation: /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers
assume all {suit}s read. Used to question an unbelieved quote,
as in "Did you read that in "Datamation?"" 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 it has since
become much more exclusively {suit}-oriented and boring.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
assume all {suit}s read. Used to question an unbelieved quote,
as in "Did you read that in "Datamation?"" 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 it has since
become much more exclusively {suit}-oriented and boring.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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