Humour the Computer

You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this uniquecollection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic songlyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer bringstogether a selection of some of the best computer-related humorous material culledfrom a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The NewYorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, TheJournal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-oddassorted writings embrace the impact of computing on our lives, hilarious hardware, silly software, first encounters with computing, computer companies that we love, programming pains, and absurd academia.