Douglas McIlroy
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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.
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Ritchie and Thompson made an amazing team; and they played Unix and C like a fine instrument.
Doug McIlroy (2011). Remarks for Japan Prize award ceremony for Dennis Ritchie, May 19, 2011, Murray Hill, NJ
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together.
Doug McIlroy (2003). The Art of Unix Programming: Basics of the Unix Philosophy
The notion of "intricate and beautiful complexities" is almost an oxymoron.
Doug McIlroy (2003). The Art of Unix Programming: Basics of the Unix Philosophy
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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. He was also one of the pioneering researchers of macro processors and programming language extensibility. He participated in the design of multiple influential programming languages, particularly PL/I, SNOBOL, ALTRAN, TMG and C++.
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