Cri de Coeur

By Deane Barker tags: french

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.

Links from this – The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains January 24, 2024