Computer Contradictionary

Title: Computer Contradictionary
Author: Stan Kelly-Bootle
ISBN: 9780262611121
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 2nd
Number of Pages: 260
Section: Computers | Computer Science
Publisher Description: "[The Computer Contradictionary] is ultimately a manual to our industry, computer history, and much of your universe as it really ought to be. It is also the first dictionary you're likely to read in one sitting. Enjoy!"
-- Andrew Binstock, "UNIX Review"

"With his mind-numbing grasp of English, literature, computer history, and programmer culture, Stan is the Umberto Eco of programming".
-- Ron Burk", Windows Developer's Journal"

"Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary", warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions.