Writing Career
In 1973, Kelly-Bootle left Sperry-UNIVAC and became a freelance consultant, writer and programmer.
Kelly-Bootle is well known in the computer community for his books The Devil's DP Dictionary and its second edition, The Computer Contradictionary. These are sarcastic/cynical lexicographies in the vein of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
He also authored or coauthored several serious textbooks and tutorials on subjects such as the Motorola 68000 family of CPUs, programming languages including various C compilers, and the Unix operating system. His texts have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Korean, and Chinese.
He authored the "Devil's Advocate" column in UNIX Review from 1984 until 2000, and also had columns in OS/2 Magazine ("End Notes", 1994–1997) and Software Development ("Seamless Quanta", Oct 1995 – May 1997). He contributed columns and articles to several other computer industry magazines as well.
His articles for magazines such as ACM Queue, AI / Expert, and UNIX Review contain stunning examples of word-play, criticism of silly marketing and usage (he refers often to the computer "laxicon") and commentary on the industry in general. Kelly-Bootle has also written an online monthly column posted on the Internet (see external links, below).
While most of his writing has been oriented towards the computer industry, he has also written a few books relating to his other interests. These include:
- Liverpool Lullabies, The Stan Kelly Songbook, SING Publications, 1960. Second edition, 1976.
- Lern Yourself Scouse – How to Talk Proper in Liverpool, Scouse Press, 1961, written with Fritz Spiegl and Frank Shaw. Sixteen editions published through 1991.
- The Terrace Muse, An Anthology of Soccer Songs and Chants, serialized in the Daily Express in 1970.
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