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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Datamation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dark-side-hacker.html" title="dark-side hacker"/><link rel="next" href="DAU.html" title="DAU"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Datamation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dark-side-hacker.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DAU.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Datamation"/><dt xmlns="" id="Datamation"><b>Datamation</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/day`t@·may´sh@n/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A magazine that many hackers assume all <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s
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read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in “<span class="quote">Did you read that
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in <i class="citetitle">Datamation?</i></span>”. It used to publish something
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hackishly funny every once in a while, like the original paper on
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<a href="../C/COME-FROM.html"><i class="glossterm">COME FROM</i></a> in 1973, and Ed Post's <i class="citetitle">Real
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Programmers Don't Use Pascal</i> ten years later, but for a long
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time after that it was much more exclusively
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<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>-oriented and boring. Following a change of
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editorship in 1994, Datamation briefly tried for more the technical content
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and irreverent humor that marked its early days, but this did not
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