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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
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?'" (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 is trying for more of the technical content and irreverent humor that marked its early days.
Datamation now has a WWW page at 'http://www.datamation.com' worth visiting for its selection of computer humor, including "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" and the 'Bastard Operator From Hell' stories by Simon Travaglia (see {BOFH}).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Datamation /day"t*-may"sh*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. [{Jargon File}]
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