Those interviewed suggested "displaced person" (56%), "double play" (33%), "deferred payment" (7%), "directione propria" (5%), and "data processing" (-1%). My initial working title was the gender-free Child of Devil's DP Dictionary until an informal poll revealed that DP was no longer associated with computing.
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After much coaxing and ridicule, therefore, I now offer this update under a fresh title and a more fertile imprimatur. Since its demise, I have been occasionally reminded, especially by readers of my UNIX Review "Devil's Advocate" column, that a new DDPD is long overdue, exploiting both the catastrophic decline of our fair trade (''the laxicon was never laxer") and the steady increase in my omniscience since 1981.
Malgre tout, the book survived "in print" for over ten years and, I believe, fulfilled its original satirical aim of "increasing the dearth of useful data processing glossaries." The ould DDPD eventually achieved its predestined epuisage, but at least it remained unremaindered to the bitter end, sparing me the authors' ultimate indignity: snapping up job lots at tuppence a gross. " (2 Samuel 1:20, SKBRV) Thirteen years and untold computer "generations" have passed since my DDPD (The Devil's DP Dictionary ) was first exposed to conical, nay, hyperbolic dissection. "Ten it not on the !lidewalb of New York~nuhli!lh it not in the Avenue.'lof the Americas.
In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics."-Ambrose Bierce.