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Douglas McIlroy Alive

Douglas McIlroy
KindPerson
Born1932
StatusAlive
Fieldoperating systems
Also known asDoug McIlroy
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Invented the Unix pipe — the idea that programs should snap together like garden hoses — and wrote much of early Unix tooling.

Invented the Unix pipe (1973) — `|` — and wrote the 'Unix philosophy': 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well.'\n\nRan the research department that built Unix; the diff, spell, and the coroutine concept are his.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy