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 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).