ACM SIGSOFT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING N O T E S Vol 9 N o 1 J a n 1984 The A Guide Hacker's World Dictionary of Computer -- to the Wizards Guy L. Steele Jr., Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, and Geoffrey S. Goodfellow Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, Colophon 1082, 1983, 139 pp. Reviewed by Peter O. Neumann This dictionary ( T H D ) has grown out of the AI-cult "Jargon File", which also had an influence on Stan Kelly-Bootle's Devil's D P Dictionary (see my review, S E N 8 2 April 1983). While Stan's dictionary is deadly nonserious (i.e., you should not trust any entry), T H D is lively serious (in that each definition is actually consistent with live hacker-usage, but also lively reading). It is timely (hackers are certainly in the news lately -- in fact, we are in danger of developing chronic hackers [cough!]), well crafted, informative, historically interesting, varied, and wry/dry of wit. It may well be an abomination to linguistic purists, but then so is spoken English. However, T H D is worth having around if you are trying to keep up
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Review of The Hacker's Dictionary--A Guide to the World of Computer Wizards by Guy L. Steele Jr, Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, and Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
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