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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Paperback) Loot Price: R364
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Paperback)

Neal Stephenson

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This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

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Imprint: AvonBooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1999
First published: November 1999
Authors: Neal Stephenson
Dimensions: 202 x 133 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 978-0-380-81593-7
Categories: Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society
Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Operating systems & graphical user interfaces (GUIs) > General
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LSN: 0-380-81593-1
Barcode: 9780380815937

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