Douglas McIlroy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,”
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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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“Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
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“Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.”
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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
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