Douglas McIlroy quotes
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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.”
-- Douglas McIlroySource : "A Quarter Century of UNIX". Book by Peter H. Salus, 1980.
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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.”
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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 that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
-- Douglas McIlroySource : "The Unix Oral History Project". Interview with Michael S. Mahoney, www.princeton.edu.
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Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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