Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science...
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diplomat Douglas McIlroy (born 1932), mathematician, engineer, and programmer James McIlroy (disambiguation), various people Jimmy McIlroy (1931–2018)...
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Hill, New Jersey: Bell Laboratories. Retrieved 31 January 2020. "M. Douglas McIlroy". Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020...
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non-alphanumeric characters. The original version of tr was written by Douglas McIlroy and was introduced in Version 4 Unix. The version of tr bundled in...
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x Douglas McIlroy. "Remarks for Japan Prize award ceremony for Dennis Ritchie, May 19, 2011, Murray Hill, NJ" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-06-19. Bill McGonigle...
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part of the 5th Edition of Unix released in 1974, and was written by Douglas McIlroy, and James Hunt. This research was published in a 1976 paper co-written...
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executed concurrently. The concept of pipelines was championed by Douglas McIlroy at Unix's ancestral home of Bell Labs, during the development of Unix...
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could manipulate files no matter what sort of device they were on. Douglas McIlroy then ported TMG compiler-compiler to PDP-7 assembly, creating the first...
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interface. The idea of reusable software components was promoted by Douglas McIlroy in his presentation at the NATO Software Engineering Conference of...
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shell. echo began within Multics. After it was programmed in C by Doug McIlroy as a "finger exercise" and proved to be useful, it became part of Version...
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invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy. (Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but...
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the project. The last to leave were Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna, who decided to reimplement their experiences in a...
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Speak (Unix) (section McIlroy Algorithm)
(speakm) was around 1900 bytes. The speak utility was developed by Douglas McIlroy in the early 1970s at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It...
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Hunt–Szymanski algorithm (redirect from Hunt-McIlroy algorithm)
into an older framework of Douglas McIlroy. The description of the algorithm appeared as a technical report by Hunt and McIlroy in 1976. The following year...
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descendant of the RUNOFF program by Jerry Saltzer, which ran on CTSS. Douglas McIlroy and Robert Morris wrote runoff for Multics in BCPL based on Saltzer's...
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implementation language in 1964. EPL was developed at Bell Labs and MIT by Douglas McIlroy, Robert Morris, and others. Initially, it was developed using the TMG...
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the game Darwin, played by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris, and Douglas McIlroy at Bell Labs in 1961. The word "Core" in the name comes from magnetic-core...
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Sam is the text editor used by Bjarne Stroustrup, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy and Tom Duff.[citation needed] Others, like Dennis Ritchie, Rob Pike...
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Ritchie, inventor of C. Unix Operating System, Plan 9 Operating System. Douglas McIlroy, influenced and designed such languages as SNOBOL, TRAC, PL/I, ALTRAN...
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self-hosting – programs could be written and tested on the PDP-7 itself. Douglas McIlroy wrote TMG (a compiler-compiler) in TMG on a piece of paper and "decided...
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described in IETF's RFC 3284. The algorithm is based on Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy's paper "Data Compression Using Long Common Strings" written in 1999...
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add y to x (in C the operator is written +=). This syntax came from Douglas McIlroy's implementation of TMG, in which B's compiler was first implemented...
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string manipulation macros by Douglas McIlroy, which were used extensively in the initial SNOBOL implementation. In 1969, McIlroy influenced the language again...
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the term "homoiconic" had origins in a paper on macro processing by Douglas McIlroy. That paper mentions no terminology even remotely similar; its influence...
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Unix-like operating systems. "Electronic mail was there from the start", Douglas McIlroy writes in his article "A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from...
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macro-language tradition at Bell Labs, which was started by Douglas Eastwood and Douglas McIlroy in 1959. Preprocessing is defined by the first four (of eight)...
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1971. A later addition was the concept of pipes. At the suggestion of Douglas McIlroy, the redirection syntax was expanded so that the output of one command...
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M6, was in use at AT&T Bell Laboratories, which was developed by Douglas McIlroy, Robert Morris and Andrew Hall. Kernighan and Ritchie developed m4...
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in which it is an abbreviation for "Data Definition". According to Douglas McIlroy, dd was "originally intended for converting files between the ASCII...
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assembler in the same package.[failed verification] In 1959, Douglas E. Eastwood and Douglas McIlroy of Bell Labs introduced conditional and recursive macros...
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