Cri de Coeur

By Deane Barker • •

Definition: a passionate appeal or protest

This is literal French for “cry from the heart.”

Why I Looked It Up

From The Shallows:

In addition to being a learned treatise on the workings of computers and software, Weizenbaum’s book was a cri de coeur, a computer programmer’s passionate and at times self-righteous examination of the limits of his profession.

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