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 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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {COME FROM}{Conway's Law}{kluge}]