Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas McIlroy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a mathematician Douglas McIlroy.

Last updated on December 26, 2024.

Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is a 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 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++.

Mathematician | Born: 1932

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As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

Douglas McIlroy

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

Douglas McIlroy

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Douglas McIlroy

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Douglas McIlroy

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

Douglas McIlroy

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas McIlroy

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