The New Penguin Dictionary of Computing by Dick Pountain, Penguin, £14.99, ISBN 0140514376
YOU might ask whether anyone really needs a computer dictionary, given that all this stuff is on the Web. Well, just last week I spent an hour trying to find a definition of dual-domain in-plane switching. A dictionary is quick and always available, and Dick Pountain has given us a reliable one.
It’s probably not a good idea, however, to mark the back of such a beast “up-to-date”. Nothing in print is ever timely any more. And there’s nothing in this volume about the fact that the American restrictions on exporting cryptography software…
