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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 briefly tried for more the technical content and
irreverent humor that marked its early days, but this did not last.
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