4 Quotes by Douglas McIlroy

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

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

-Douglas McIlroy

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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.

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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

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

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

-Douglas McIlroy

 

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