Douglas McIlroy Quotes

• 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

  Philosophy, Writing, Working Together

  "The Unix Oral History Project". Interview with Michael S. Mahoney, www.princeton.edu.

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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

  Jobs, Today, Tomorrow

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

  Douglas McIlroy

  Real, Hero, Writing

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

  Douglas McIlroy

  Simple, Keep It Simple

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

  Douglas McIlroy

  Writing, Program, Streams

  "A Quarter Century of UNIX". Book by Peter H. Salus, 1980.

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